Early examples have the grip secured by a single screw and a press stud without the screw slot. Unlike most bayonets, the wooden grip scales wrap completely around the tang. The scabbard is the early No. 5, without the thick brass throatpiece found on post-war scabbards. This example was made by the Wilkinson Sword Co. 303 caliber Lee-Enfield No. 5 Mk. I rifle. Sterling L2 submachine gun. Also used on the. Nearly all of the bayonets were believed scrapped, making period examples like this one quite rare today. The large forward projection on the stamped spring steel catch serves as a fingerguard, so the bayonet can also be used as a hand weapon.ħ5,280 bayonets were believed produced during 1943–1944, 55,800 by Grundy Ltd. The socket also bears a partial Broad Arrow acceptance mark. The socket bears Grundy’s dispersal code, “S41”. This example was assembled by the firm Grundy Ltd. Spikes marked with the lowercase ”L” are believed to be made by Laspee Engineering Co. I represented the ultimate in Second World War bayonet simplicity. Although the STEN rod was of a larger diameter, this enabled the STEN Mk. I bayonet was fabricated out of sheet steel and utilized a rod-style blade copied from the No. Scabbard (frog stud): Austrian (Hapsburg) Imperial Eagle and "OE" over "WG" Ricasso: Austrian (Hapsburg) Imperial Eagle and "OE" over "WG" The m/938 bayonet was a conversion of the earlier Portuguese M1904 Mauser-Vergueiro rifle bayonet, produced by Simson & Co. Portugal used a different bayonet designated the m/938 ( pictured below). In any case, these specially- made bayonets are scarcely encountered today.
Serial numbers observed have been under 500, suggesting that the quantity of bayonets produced was likely very small.
A distinctive serial number is stamped into the pommel and also on the scabbard body.
This bayonet is a reworked M1895, where the M1895 bayonet’s domed crosspiece rivets are ground flush, the metal blued and, the grips replaced and secured with screwbolts.
MP 34s made for export included a bayonet lug for mounting the Austrian M1895 knife bayonet. Following the German Anschluss (annexation) of 1938, the MP 34 was produced until 1940 for the Wehrmacht, designated MP 34(ö), and for export to Portugal, designated Pistola Metralhadora m/938 and m/942. Very finely manufactured and widely considered the Rolls-Royce of submachine guns, the MP 34 was produced by Steyr 1930–1938 for use by the Austrian Army and Police and for export to China, Chile, Bolivia, El Salvador, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Special version of the M1895 knife bayonet, possibly produced for use with the Steyr-Solothurn Maschinenpistole 34 (MP34) submachine gun.