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Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
« on: June 18, 2015, 11:30:20 AM »
I ran across this and don't need it.  I don't own a Gras and have no plans of buying one.  I also don't have any idea what these should sell for but if this were for a Krag or Mauser in this condition it would be worth every penny.

Hope someone can use this.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1879-French-Gras-Rifle-Bayonet-Scabbard-Pre-WW-1-Antique-/301661879167?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item463c72fb7f
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Re: Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2015, 05:10:10 PM »
They seem to have come down a bit, I've got about that much in mine, but it's nowhere near as nice. But if I got a nicer one, it'd look out of place on my Rust Relic Gras.....

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Re: Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2015, 07:50:08 PM »
Maybe your Gras suffered a lot of trips being thrown down on the ground but the bayonet made few trips out of the scabbard . . .


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Re: Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
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Re: Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2015, 08:29:13 PM »
Actually, the French were quite fond of their bayonets. Up till the opening days of WWI, many French generals believed that a  bayonet charge performed by brightly dressed soldiers would even overcome massed machine guns and artillery. :o

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Re: Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2015, 09:17:02 PM »
Of course, we all know how THAT turned out..........
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Re: Gras Bayonet and Scabbard
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2015, 10:06:33 PM »
Of course, we all know how THAT turned out..........

Not so well-but I think the soldiers learned it before the generals did!

 

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