Very neat Italian BM59 M4 with the US style plastic grips. I'm a big fan of the Yugo M56 bayonets, great little double edged fighting knife. I would love to learn more about the NZ marked spike bayonet. Thanks for sharing!
Im afraid your R1 might be a unmarked Belgian Type C in a South African scabbard (unless I missed something) The R1 is a ribbed catch Type C marked with the UM logo and a serialnumber.
@@TheSilmarallion Lots of countries used serialized Type C's, the end users of some bayonets is very hard to nail down. All I know is a genuine South African used army R1 should have a UM logo and a neatly stamped serialnumber.
The electric pencil marking on your New Zealand Spike bayonet is probaly original. According to Graham Priest's book 'The Spirit of the Pike' such electric pencil markings on NewZealand Spike bayonets vary considerably (page 201).
Graham has pretty much confirmed it for me, I also found a fact sheet on bayonetsplus.com with another just like it. I really need a copy of Graham's book. Looks like there are seven variations across 35,000 bayonets. I'm doing some further research into it
@@pointynotsharp8436 Where did you buy those white plastic ceremonial frogs? Or can I perhaps buy one from you (with or without chromium plated scabbard)?
@@pointynotsharp8436 On page 201 of TSotP there is also a picture of a New Zealand No. 4 Mk II* with a punched N [broad arrow] Z mark. But I have never seen one of those.
