AUSTRALIA

1907 made by Lithgow, complete with early hooked quillion. The Australians continued to make the quillioned ones later than the UK but still made very small numbers. This is made in 1914, a year later than the UK stopped production.

Bayonet is unit marked but does not match the scabbard

Frog is a modified Ross frog, and it came with the bayonet.

The damage to the point is very old .

Quillioned 1907 Naval marked but some marking seem to indicate Australian use

Pommel mark, 3? 3 is also district for Victoria mark seen on throat piece see below

AC maker is early scabbard producer, scabbard has N mark so is probably the original scabbard, probably with chape replaced with external chape rather than early internal one.

Scabbard shows Sold from Service mark, was it sold to Australia?

N mark on ricasso rather than the later pommel marks seen, this is period correct

Victoria mark on throat has similar 4 digit serial to pommel although not matched but close

10 1908 shows very early made example

Ricasso marks on Lithgow

Stitch line on both sides of scabbard

M1907 with buff leather frog

R marks and ^ indicate post WWII rework 

Blade point shows heavy wear to phosphate finish. I suspect that this is from use in Bayonet practice as it is limited to the point and is longitudinal

Blade is WWII manufacture

and has all normal WWII marks

What appears to be a 17" No6 trials bayonet, however there are dimensional differences and a lack of markings. The poor quality blade is more like the South African 1907 in forging quality so is probably a fake. Late pattern cross guard with large muzzle ring used for Jungle Carbine trials )

Australian Identification is tentative based on style but quality would point to elsewhere as source

This 1944 made Australian 1907 (Mk1) has been fitted with the bakelite grips from the MkII Machete bayonet. It is unlikely that this is a trials piece and more likely a "lunch box special" made by a worker in the factory. Scabbard is a reworked WWI pattern scabbard (note the acorn frog stud) with 2MD markings on the throat. Grips are original as fake machete's are based on the MkI version that used standard 1907 wooden grips

Shortened 1907 blade uses "point" of blade rather than more common tang/ricasso portion of broken blade. Crude welding of blade to cross guard

Original pommel markings left intact

Reproduction Machete Bayonet MkI

based on the 1907 hilt with an all new machete style blade, these were trialed but saw only limited numbers made

Canvas scabbard has integral web frog. Some Reproductions can be found with original scabbards as it seems more scabbards were made than blades

made from 1907 blade as original stamps just visible

L1A2 Steel grips, round ended fullers, and extended button, compare with UK L1A1, 3 and 4. Much higher quality than the UK made versions