SS Dress Bayonet..I think it's fake, but?

[ChrisCook]

Saw this the other day, the etching looks very poorly done, and not enough patina, but I've been wrong both ways before....So, figured I'd post, Chris..

[ChrisCook]

Fake bayonet

More pics

[rbminis]

Handle slabs are not original, IMO.
Ralph.

[tranchant]

ss

hello
yes a well know FAKE!
best regards
patrick

[Frogprince]

A fake from the UK/Germany circa 1970's? With the UK put into the equation because that's just my own sense of where a large proportion of the orders originated in that time frame. Realizing of course that US fakers like Atwood et.al. also had a pipeline in place for fakes - that still seems to periodically be making them. FP

[JohnZ]

Your sense is correct... it is wrong on several levels.

John