Please Help Identify This Bayonet

**FromCanada** · 06-23-2011, 08:19 AM

Not sure what this one is. It looks like it might have been arsenal rebuilt at some point. I only seen it briefly and have a chance to buy it. I recall seeing a few small Crown markings on it. Any ideas? Thanks!

(Talking about the one that is out of the scabbard - the knife beside it is a Canadian Ross Rifle fighting knife BTW)

**Reibert** · 06-23-2011, 08:41 AM

it´s a czechoslovakian bayonet, (VZ23 or VZ24).
overall lenght ?
blade lenght ?

BTW, AndyB is the right man for such questions !

**lithgow** · 06-23-2011, 05:21 PM

I have one of these (no frog though)-post WW2 production, brand new in the grease-year of production is on the base of the pommel

PS : Czech VZ24 Bayo

**Reibert** · 06-23-2011, 06:26 PM

by lithgow

I have one of these (no frog though)-post WW2 production, ...

Such pattern bayonets were manufactured after 1945 ? ...

**zwerge** · 06-23-2011, 07:35 PM

by Reibert

Such pattern bayonets were manufactured after 1945 ? ...

Perhaps it is a Yugo Mauser M48 bayonet,a picture would help from Lithgow.

**lithgow** · 06-23-2011, 07:54 PM

I will try to post pictures-the Czechs were dead keen weapon exporters after the war as they had been before it-it's Czech not Yugoslav-the cutting edge is uppermost, a dead giveaway-the Yugo bayos are FN 24 Belgian clones with the cutting edge downwards as the bayo is held parallel to the ground.

**zwerge** · 06-23-2011, 08:37 PM

Well if the cutting edge is up it`s a Czech bayo.

**lithgow** · 06-23-2011, 09:17 PM

I'm having trouble trying to upload the pics-having looked at it again closely, the year mark is on top of the handle in the metal tang along with the crossed swords mark of the postwar Czech military-also on the frog stud of the scabbard-the end of the pommel is marked 'tgf'-blade and crossbar/muzzle ring are in a parkerised finish-scabbard is blued-will post pics later.

PS -Apparently one pic did upload-scabbard and frog stud-made 1950.
PPS-Second pic attached