Original Rare Model 1868 U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Trowel Bayonet & Scabbard- Dated Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets Manufactured by BUNNEY of LONDON

Manufactured by BUNNEY of LONDON

and a late version constructed from a single piece of stamped steel

The rifle was also particular about ammunition quality

Identical to the WW2 Can but manufactured from a lighter more durable metal with two brushes with synthetic bristles

7 mm cartridge

Original Rare Model 1868 U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Trowel Bayonet & Scabbard- Dated Category_MG 34 Display Guns & Part Sets Manufactured by BUNNEY of LONDONOriginal Item: Only one available. In almost 50 years of dealing and 56 years of collecting since the age of 12 I have never owned and perhaps not even seen, other than in books, one of these earliest style trowel bayonets. Of course in England we saw no sense in attaching a garden trowel to the front end of rifle however that is exactly what the U. S. Government did in the 1870s supposedly for entrenching purposes. This is the very first model of the