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Dan D'Silva wrote: |
It's a type of early 19th-century sword bayonet that (as far as I can discover) originated as the Prussian M1810 Hirschfanger. In Danish service some of them had the mechanism on the side of the grip was removed to turn it into a simple short sword. Possibly some obscure variants without the mechanisms also existed, as George Wheeler suggests here. See also here (under M/1848 Hirschfanger) and here for more pictures. |