Simson & Co. Suhl Bayonet

[Kevin]

What a great day yesterday! My daughter had this choir competition at a different school. On the way home, because of traffic it was easier to drive down a side street than the highway. So I figured it was just as easy to drive on the street with one of my favorite gun stores. We stopped.

I love gun stores in Texas, one has a candy jar behind the counter for kids. How great is that? At this store, the guys talked very nicely to my daughter and they have a great selection of bayonets. She loves Forged in Fire, so we started looking at the bayonets and a few swords.

She finds one, and for $30, I couldn't refuse. Besides if she gets interested in guns and knives, all the better, right? We came home and spent some time looking up this particular bayonet, now she's talking about fencing lessons. I told her to get in line, because I'd love to take some fencing lessons.

Anyway, here's the bayonet my daughter picked out. If I'm reading it correctly, it was made from 1908-1914 in Germany for export to Brazil, and fits a 7mm Mauser.

It is a little rough and didn't have a scabbard, but could be the start of a great collection!

 

[tinman]

Nice find.......sounds like regular trips to augment her collection are in order.

 

[Highhawk1948]

Fencing is a very intense sport

 

[Kevin]

It was interesting to see all the different bayonets. Some are worth quite a bit. I suppose it’s about quality and how rare they are.

I think with this one there were just a lot of them.

 

[gramps]

Fencing is a very intense sport

I was taught fencing, but not Olympic style, since we had rapiers( as opposed to epee’s), and daggers. When fighting, we could not attack with the dagger, merely defend. Of course, I would trap my opponents blade with the daggers quillon momentarily, and TOUCHÉ! My opponents cried foul, but since I attacked the opponents blade it was ruled good! :mrgreen:
Good find Kevin! Raise a child up in the way they should go, and they won’t swerve from duty! Keep on my friend!
gramps

 

[arfmel]

You’re a good dad. When I was a kid (55 years ago) my dad rarely took me to an Army Surplus store. There were lots of them in those days, full of cool stuff like bayonets, entrenching tools, canteens, pistol belts, holsters, and uniforms. Dad never could be convinced that I “needed” any of that stuff, no matter how hard I tried.

 

[gramps]

You’re a good dad. When I was a kid (55 years ago) my dad rarely took me to an Army Surplus store. There were lots of them in those days, full of cool stuff like bayonets, entrenching tools, canteens, pistol belts, holsters, and uniforms. Dad never could be convinced that I “needed” any of that stuff, no matter how hard I tried.

Yep, my father wouldn’t camp, hike, or do amateur radio, cause he did it in the war, and wasn’t doing it again. He was a WORKAHOLIC! He did have a KABAR knife that he used to cut paper in the print shop(Heidelberg press).
gramps

 

[ilikerams]

Now it's time to find a rifle to fit that bayonet.

 

[toysoldier]

I was a member of a fencing club for 3 years. Our instructor taught us the classical French form, no electronics. We studied foil, epee, and saber. I wasn't very good, but it was great physical and mental exercise. We fenced against another club, trained in the Italian style, a couple of times. Fencing is called "physical chess," because you have to think several moves ahead. If you get into fencing, ALWAYS wear the protective gear. Blades do break.

 

[NikA]

That's a nice bayonet, would look great on a classic Mauser milsurp. You inspired me to dig out my bayonet collection, which currently like this:

https://ibb.co/dbokY0

Yeah, these things tend to multiply when you don't pay close attention to them.