Information about this scabbard

 This scabbard was made with black lacquered leather bodies with sheet brass mounts.  Both throat and tip mounts are held to the leather with two large brass rivets on each side.  

The leather body appears to have been contoured to the shape of the curved blades. 

The frog stud is a 16 mm domed brass stud, brazed to the right side of the throat mount.  The throat edges are bent inwardly and the opening is in the shape of a blade.

The edges of the tip mount are slightly curved outwardly down the length where other scabbards within this type are straight.  A distinctive feature of this bayonet that is easy to notice. The large tip finial, an oval domed brass cap that is almost flat, is brazed over the end of the tip mount body.  

The throat mounts are 69 mm long and 44 mm wide.  The tip mount is 89 mm long and 33 mm wide.  The overall length is approximately 610 mm long.

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