Rusty and broken bayonet Restoration. This old rusty bayonet was found on the battlefield of World War II. I decided to ...

Watch Jeff Shrader’s appraisal of an imperial German engraved S98 bayonet, ca. 1910, in Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, ...

Of all things military that people like to collect, bayonets are among the most popular. And why not? They are relatively inexpensive, easy to display and come in hundreds of iterations. There is also ...

Calcutta, March 5: Attention had been directed in Calcutta recently to hawkers selling splitters imported from Germany consisting of a sword, bayonet attached by a screw to an iron scabbard, the ...

Anthony Carter, who has died aged 58, spent his whole life in singleminded devotion to the study, promotion and sale of late 19th and 20th century bayonets. These well-documented weapons were ...

The bayonet made its debut in European armies in the late 17th century as a kind of primitive “weapon of mass destruction”. The firearms of the time were inaccurate and beset by problems with jamming.

Russian soldiers first became acquainted with the bayonet in the early 18th century and immediately saw the benefits of this fixed blade mounted below the barrel of a rifle. Honor guard soldier of ...