Butcher Bayo & Frog

[evilmike]

Picked up today with some WW1 grenades

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[jwh44]

Hello

Interesting 98/05 because C. Galle is not common.
Regards
Alain

[evilmike]

yes not one i remember seeing before

[Milton]

Nice bayonet rig! Seems a tough maker to find, much like the "CITO" marked one I found locally last year. Nice finds!

[dasboot2011]

Nice bayonet!

[besslein]

interesting maker on that one,never seen before,and i have owned many of this in the past.congrats

[collecter]

Hi with ref; to John Walter's book "The sword and bayonet makers of Imperial germany 1871-1918" one of the Solingen firms that made a few bayonets in WW1(C. Galle 1914-1917) the company cannot be traced through the Industrie und Handelskammer zu Solingen and that it most likely ceased trading during the Weimar republic.It was thought that the firm bought bayonet blanks from another source as the concerns stampings occur in conjunction with those of other Solingen firms.Now the other stamp Walter &cie seems to have been a retailer of the products bearing the companys name,for most of the edged weapons handled by Walter have also bourne the name of a better known cutlery firm usually F.Herder & Sohn of Solingen.Johnvery nice bayonet by the way.

[Mac 66]

Hey Mike, great rare maker bayo & grenades matey

[ROBB]

Has the bayo been ground down , its not the normal shape with the bulbous end ? Rob