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BEC N96 NO4 Mark II

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Topic: BEC N96 NO4 Mark II

Posted By: Goosic
Subject: BEC N96 NO4 Mark II
Date Posted: October 30 2023 at 2:43pm

Found this little beauty in a secondhand store today. I have a H&B N30 but I could not pass on the price so now I own two fairly interesting spike bayonets.

Baird Engineering Company of Belfast, Northern Ireland, produced approximately 101,103 bayonets from 1942–1944.

Unlike other makers of No. 4 Mk. II* bayonets, Baird secured the spike to the socket using a steel pin. Other makers welded the spike to the socket. This example has a much finer finish on the socket than other No. 4 Mk. II* bayonets.

Many Baird examples have a crowned IG mark on the socket. Due to similarities with Indian Government acceptance marks, this was once thought to possibly indicate Indian service. However, this has not been substantiated. An increasing consensus is that this simply may be a viewer's mark, as this mark seems only to be found on Baird No. 4 bayonets....

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Posted By: Enfield trader
Date Posted: October 30 2023 at 4:26pm

Nice

Posted By: A square 10
Date Posted: November 08 2023 at 9:18pm

thats a nice find and the scabbard is as well ,

ive noticed that often the bayonets are collected and the scabbards are treated as just an add on , they are equally interesting and so are the frogs , but then you need to be a collector to recognize some things i guess , i collected the complete gamut so i notice some of these things

Posted By: Goosic
Date Posted: November 09 2023 at 4:53am

The information i have regarding these scabbards suggest that they were made in North America and not originally intended to be mated with a bayonet made in Belfast. I am trying to locate a Lucas made scabbard.