Crossguard and just visible is the original Gras ricasso mark

Original Arsenal marks re just visible on spine of blade

UK 1856 style pommel with wooden grips cut to resemble the French 1866 Chassepot bayonet

Pommel looks very similar to the 1856 Yataghan style in shape and style

Frog s modelled on the original Japanese pattern

Original Frog reverse side

Hilt uses Japanese style oval screws

Crude Braze on attaching the pommel to the tang

Is this a marking or just corrosion marks Bill (Juken30 ) has identified this mark as the Arsenal marking for the 90th Arsenal under Communist control

Hilt, note that the fixings are oval as in the Japanese Arisaka blades

Also rivets are not central on tang

T backed blade is not as well formed as European blades with very heavy T and less defined T shape

Hilt is straight backed not humped as for the Gras

Frog strap on scabbard is much narrower than the European made ones and scabbard is of thinner material

Pommel is ground flat to allow it to mount, maybe like the Germans the original Gras Hump has been removed to fit to a later type rifle

1871(?) date and unknown blade script

Belgian made Ersatz bayonet, uses old Belgian socket blade fixed to a sheet steel hilt.

Belgian made "ersatz" using a Belgian socket blade to make a new bayonet for a Mauser type rifle

rather crude wooden grips with Germanic style hilt anad cross guard

Interesting very well made and substantial scabbard

Belgian made bayonets for China, essentially similar these two have variations in the grips retaining screws/bolts, one is blued the other is not and the in white blade only shows a half muzzle ring which is different to all other blades of this type I have or know of

6 Belgian produced bayonets, these use Geramn WWI ersatz bayonets and parts from other swords and bayonets as their basis. It is thought that they were produced in small "workshops" to bring work in the aftermath of WWI. I suppose the identification should be 1920, as are the other Chinese blades of this period but these are not shown in the texts, and as they are conversions may end up being like the Turkish conversions in their numbers.

Not sure if this is a conversion of another blade or not, it has some similarity to the 1907 style blade but.......

Converted German ersatz

Hilt has been machined to allow inset wooden grips, original muzzle ring has been removed

original German inspection mark on the spine

Converted 98/05 ersatz style bayonet in original 98/05 leather scabbard, I would think that the issue would have been in a steel scabbard not leather unless for a specific purpose i.e. NCO?

wooden grips inset into original steel hilt

the grooves in the original hilt are still visible

Grips are very thin

German inspection mark on spine still visible

Is this a conversion of another German blade, possibly a re shaped 98/05 style ersatz

all steel hilt has German ersatz style

very thin grips

blunt blade, is this due to the re shaping of the original butcher blade shape?

is this another ersatz conversion, the blade heavily ground on the ricasso, hilt style is similar to the 98/05

Another German Ersatz conversion

Removed muzzle ring and wooden grip inserts

cross guard is crudely ground off

again very shallow grips inserts

Blade fullers extend under the cross guard

Hilt spring is very thin

Blade is narrower than the Chassepot and muzzle ring adjuster uses nut and bolt

Hilt grooves are very crudely made

Comparison of French and Chinese models

Side view of French and Chinese versions

German style frog stud

Mukden Arisaka made after the Japanese had left

Crudely made blade has Mukden arsenal stamp on the ricasso. Blade shows heavy signs of grinding under a dark blued finish (Juken30) has identified the additional ricasso mark as the 90th Arsenal under National Chinese control (1945 to 1948) Many thanks

Late war pattern crossguard and pommel combined with grips held together by rivets 

Chinese Mauser made with Japanese Arisaka blade

Tokyo arsenal Arisaka blade

Grips are made with screw headed

Rivets

Fake paratrooper bayonet, appears to attempt to be a Japanese type 100

Marked with 1917

and US marking

Crude pommel

Scabbard is apparently marked with para wings  over a star, not sure what the markings are meant to represent

Scabbard is also marked with a US-M8 marking. Amazing piece

Type 53 folding

Fixed folding bayonet

Type 56 folding

AKM Type 2

AKM type 2

Norinco made AKM provided with SVD copies in the USA, these are commercial rather than military blades, but made by the same factories

The pommel is slightly different to the Russian models

The colour of the Chinese bayonets is distinctive, with a semi matt finish

T81 modified to fit US M1 Carbine 

Muzzle ring and pommel modifications to fit the M1