This is more like a sword bayonet. Any ideas on a maker?

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It appears some one at some point took the blade from either a Chassepot rifle or an .57 caliber Enfield rifled musket and cobbed it onto the hilt of some unknown maybe pioneers sword maybe? Something about the littl rectangular block right in the middle of the quilions rings a bell on the hilt but I don't know why.

I forgot, and installed the blade upside down in the handle.

The little rectangular blocks, there would be two of them, would be part of the attachment system to the rifle. Could be french XIX, or Italian, or Argentinian for that matter. The British had them on the Baker, the french on the Gras. The french called them bayonette-sabre, and said that they were inspired by the yatagan. Apparently the japanese had something similar on the Arikasa. the argentinians and turks on their Mausers. Information gleaned fron Calizzano, Le Grand Livre des Armes Blanches, Paris 1989, pp140 to 142.

It bears some resemblance to a Springfield bayonet. I believe, and correct me if I'm wrong here, they too had a double bend.