AUSTRIA

1799 socket bayonet. blade has numbers on socket and is a non equal cruciform style, I know of the location of a scabbard and may put them together

1849 sword bladed socket

markings on the blade are on the shank of the bayonet

Locking ring is missing the bolt

Hard to find full length 1867 bayonet. Most of these were cut down to the shorter length of the later 1873 Yataghan

Made by JUNG

Close up of right hilt, showing the sight on the top of the muzzle ring and 5 rivet grips with external spring. Ricasso has GF stamp on it. Unit marks on crossguard

Close up of left hilt Maker C&J over W mark on Ricasso

Re gripped 1867 short fitted with w 3 rivet wooden grip, there are apparently 2 and 4 rivet versions as well. Even more interesting is that this is a an NCO version having the pommel ring for attaching trodels (knots)

Large press stud on M1870

OE/WG marking on scabbard and cross guard markings 

Three rivet leather grips, LW unit marks on cross guard

OEWG mark of maker on blade (Steyr)

Scabbard frog stud marked with OEWG for Steyr manufacture

1885 Yataghan trials bayonet with wood rather than the earlier leather style grips. Identifiable by the 17.5mm muzzle ring, only 5000 were made for trials purposes, the final bayonet chosen was the 1895.

Cross guard markings on 1886

Unit markings on 1886

1888 NCO

An 1888 NCO model that has been poorly cleaned up resulting in the apparent loss of the rivets in the crossguard and the almost total loss of the adjusting screw on the muzzle ring. A good example (?) of why care must be taken in cleaning old bayonets.

1886 or 1888 with removed muzzle ring

During WWI Austria captured large  numbers of Russian 1891 Mosin Nagants and produced their own copy of the 1891 bayonet for them, (as well as using captured bayonets). They used a straight slot instead of a dog legged one and are marked with the Austrian eagle and M.A.IX for the makers mark. These were issued in the German style ersatz scabbard  or one of several other variations to the scabbard available

Early straight pattern ARS ARM markings

Italicised ARS ARM markings 1895 which are a later model than the straight markings version above, these have a better finish than the earlier version.

Manufacturing marking stf is thought to be Steyr

Scabbard has OEWG markings

Busch makers marks

AB ricasso mark

1895 Mannlicher OEWG made

FGGY markings on Hungarian made 1895

Crossed swords maker mark on Ricasso

Dress 1895 no markings on blade

Has dummy press stud, there is no locking mechanism in the pommel

Press stud is brazed on

Dress 1895

Hilt has WE ? under a crown brass insert

OEWG made

Close up of the hilt badge fixed to the hilt

Crossed swords maker mark, is just visible on the ricasso

Vestigial slot in pommel would make it impossible to mount on rifle

1895 fitted with wire cutter on scabbard possibly Portuguese

Cutters bayonet and scabbard

Distinctive makers mark

Austrian Eagle stamp on ricasso

Frog stud shows similar mark

Knot tied through pommel ring and around Quillion

Pommel  ring detail

Unit markings on Pommel are for 22nd ? weapon 198

Frog is Austrian but scabbard is Italian style

Frog is unmarked

W mark on ricasso, I think this is the mark of the company that reworked the blade, and may be the same as the one that uses the Outlined W mark

Original OEWG makers mark

Ornate Frog

40 mark on crossguard is the only marking on the blade

Scabbard has OE over WG mark on the frog stud

Acceptance mark

Unknown W makers mark - actually a composite Monogram including a P on the left side and a F on the right side of the W  "Wiener Neustädter Patronen Fabrik" thanks to Melk in Austria

1895 With Zeitler markings

1895  Zeitler  Vien VIII ricasso marking

1895 crossed swords and Hammers are also Zeitler markings

Scabbard has MO makers mark

Grips have counter sunk rivet grips showing reworked nature of blade

1895 made by Ferlach, stamp is a joined O, M and C

1888 NCO

1895 with modified hilt. The pommel ahs been inverted as have the grips. the slot and all attachments locks etc. have been welded up, it would appear that the grips were fixed before some of the welding/grinding took place, and it is not possible to determine at what time the modifications were made]

More interestingly the frog on the scabbard appears to have been period modified by removing the original belt loop and replacing it with a strap and buckle arrangement. With the strap attached to the buckle a belt would not pass through the resulting loop. It would appear that the modification was done to allow it to attach to a ring, and it is suspected that this is to allow it to attach to a horses tack, possibly Hungarian

An 1888 NCO model that has been poorly cleaned up resulting in the apparent loss of the rivets in the crossguard and the almost total loss of the adjusting screw on the muzzle ring. A good example (?) of why care must be taken in cleaning old bayonets.

1912 by OEWG, many of these were exported but some were used by Austrian in WWI

WWI ersatz bayonet, one of several variations for use on Austrian and German weapons. Very crude manufacture of bent and riveted steel strip. Originally made without scabbards this one has been mated to an Austrian fighting knife scabbard, but will also fit an 1888 one

An interesting variation on the Flat strip ersatz bayonet

this one has a quillion added as seen on other Austrian blades of the period

Tight quillion is similar in shape to that on the 1895 NCO, but is formed from thin rod spot welded on to the centre of the flat

Muzzle ring is 19mm for the Werndl rifle

Catch shows cut outs on both sides

Original Austrian Frog and scabbard

Frog stud has a serial number B  31

Erstaz type for the 1895 Mannlicher rifle. This variant uses a  cross guard similar to the 1895 bayonet but much cruder but using the same twin rivet fixing method. The scabbard has the brass frog stud and finial normally found on the Turkish M1917 ersatz. This is not the first of these found in this style of scabbard. Markings on the blade were restricted to two areas of damage from the clamps used to twist the blade.