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Garand bayonet value
- Thread starter chazehen
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they did cut down bayonets at the beginning of ww2 to use on the garand so it's a possibility
does the groove go all the way to the end? if it does then it was a cut down 1903 bayonet
does the groove go all the way to the end? if it does then it was a cut down 1903 bayonet
10 years ago, I sold a standard original WWII Garand bayonet in good condition, with scabbard, for $75.
I haven't followed the values since then, but that's where I'd start for a ballpark.
P.S. Don't forget that during the 1930s, surplus 1903 Springfield bayonets were plentiful and dirt cheap. Is it possible that some private citizen bought one for $2 and ground it down himself to make a more practical fighting knife out of it?
Maybe this was a bayonet ground down in the 1960s by a private citizen who just obtained an M1 Garand and wanted an appropriate-length bayonet for it, and happened to have an old 1903 pig-sticker handy...
Anything's possible, right?
I haven't followed the values since then, but that's where I'd start for a ballpark.
P.S. Don't forget that during the 1930s, surplus 1903 Springfield bayonets were plentiful and dirt cheap. Is it possible that some private citizen bought one for $2 and ground it down himself to make a more practical fighting knife out of it?
Maybe this was a bayonet ground down in the 1960s by a private citizen who just obtained an M1 Garand and wanted an appropriate-length bayonet for it, and happened to have an old 1903 pig-sticker handy...
Anything's possible, right?
Billy Bob is more likely to sharpen or polish a bayonet than cut one down, $2 or not.
I've watched (and cringed) when momos take a perfectly mint 1903 pattern bayonet to the knife man and the gunshow and have him sharpen it for them.
Yours looks like a cut-down and with scabbard, as others have pointed out, is worth about $80 to $125 depending. It looks reworked for WWII, black scales, etc.
Look at the bright side. When I started collecting, these had little desirability. Now they have a niche collector market.
I've watched (and cringed) when momos take a perfectly mint 1903 pattern bayonet to the knife man and the gunshow and have him sharpen it for them.
Yours looks like a cut-down and with scabbard, as others have pointed out, is worth about $80 to $125 depending. It looks reworked for WWII, black scales, etc.
Look at the bright side. When I started collecting, these had little desirability. Now they have a niche collector market.
