Original Belgian Terssen Model 1868 Pioneer Sawback Bayonet for Comblain Rifle dated 1879 with Scabbard Category_Snider Rifle Parts No real issues or defects

No real issues or defects to speak of

These rifles come directly from IMA’s extraordinary discovery of arms stored for generations in the old royal palace of Lagan Silikhana in Kathmandu

The blade's ricasso under the chappe is stamped with the post 1941 Eickhorn simplified trademark: a seated "regardent" squirrel looking backward over its shoulder

The government recovered it and interred it in a monastery near Milan

but forged ahead to capture territory that the American forces had not formerly held

Original Belgian Terssen Model 1868 Pioneer Sawback Bayonet for Comblain Rifle dated 1879 with Scabbard Category_Snider Rifle Parts No real issues or defectsOriginal Item: One Only. This is a fine example of the rare early Model 1868 Pioneer Saw back Bayonet, originally designed for the Belgian Terssen Rifle. However the Terssen was relatively quickly replaced by the M1870 Comblain rifle, which was designed with the same mounting parameters, so most of these saw service with the Comblain, especially when dated well after the Terssen was obsoleted. This bayonet used as the prototype for the German 1871