"Poignard de Tranchée, Coutrot No. 6"
Article about: Hi mates ! Wanna show you this interesting, french, WWI "substitute trench knife". The blades of such pattern knives were made of bayonet blades. overall lenght: 284 mm blade lengh
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Re: "Poignard de Tranchée, Coutrot No. 6"
a nasty looking dagger,but I like it.
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Hey Reibert.
this is a copy of the link above I'll be referring to (Daggers Chatellerault ... The Coutrots ... * daggers Coutrot french 14-18)
I recently acquired one of these ( daggers / trench knives) & I'm trying to figure out which one it is & as much information as possible about it. Maybe you can help me out? The one I have is exactly like one from the link above. counting all the photos in the posts it's the 20th photo down from the top & is the 14th from the bottom. Actually it's the last one on a blue/green back ground (from the top) the one with the metal sheath with the riveted top mount for the hanger thanks for your time
Kdub521
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Sry., I cannot open the 2nd link no more ...
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A bit on the late in this thread, and amazed to see one of these N°6 Coutrot knives here, as these are not very famous in their own country. Maybe is it because they're not among the most sexy combat knives...
We have here a very nice example, congrats.
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Reibert
Wanna show you this interesting, french, WWI "substitute trench knife".
The blades of such pattern knives were made of bayonet blades.
One remark if I may, though : on the contrary of the former ones, this very model (the N°6) wasn't a "substitute", and didn't use a recycled bayonet blade. It's a knife that was created (invented) as a new model by Lt-Col Coutrot, and was built from scratch in its whole. The "model N°6" was adopted in late 1915 and an order of 100,000 of them was placed with two manufacturers : Georges Pagé and Cheron Vogt.
The production stopped when the - much more famous - couteau-poignard Mle 16 (aka "le Vengeur") was adopted.
Well, I also had to get one of these Coutrot knives, but they're not really a piece of cake to find in such a nice condition as yours, especially regarding the leather sheath : it's often very worn and/or damaged. I'll maybe post a pic of mine a bit later. ;o)
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Das Edelweiss
... I'll maybe post a pic of mine a bit later. ...
I do hope so !
Thx. in advance,
R.
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