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<blockquote data-quote="Tribsa 56" data-source="post: 376384" data-attributes="member: 6532"><p>Here's one from my collection. Its a 1875, 1st pattern short blade sawback sword/bayonet. Made in weyersberg factory solingen germany for british forces and used on the martini henry rifles during the maori wars and also the zulu wars.Apparently in the first year they got the blade length wrong at 18" instead of 20 and 1/4" and so only 634 were made at this length so pretty rare although it is pretty beat up</p><p><img src="https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/6532/1513488897_optimized-20171217_151538-1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tribsa 56, post: 376384, member: 6532"] Here's one from my collection. Its a 1875, 1st pattern short blade sawback sword/bayonet. Made in weyersberg factory solingen germany for british forces and used on the martini henry rifles during the maori wars and also the zulu wars.Apparently in the first year they got the blade length wrong at 18" instead of 20 and 1/4" and so only 634 were made at this length so pretty rare although it is pretty beat up [img]https://www.prospectingaustralia.com/forum/img/member-images/6532/1513488897_optimized-20171217_151538-1.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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