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LOT 1413
US Confederate Bayonet
19TH CENTURY A.D.
18 1/4 in. (390 grams, 46.5 cm).
Comprising a tubular socket for fixing to a muzzle of a weapon, long tapering triangular blade with a raised rib on the underside and a rectangular stamp at the base. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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