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Originally Posted by Interested Party
It is an interesting and apparently well item from the photographs. That said I am curious about a few things concerning this piece.
2) No one has commented that this bayonet mounts with the axis of the blade 90° different than most modern bayonets. attaching to the barrel through a side ring not the proximal quillon...
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The way fits on the firearm, to the right of the barrel or underneath would depend on where the bayonet lug for the pommel was mounted. It could fit either underneath or to the right. However, I believe the round stud on the muzzle ring is designed to go into the ramrod channel. If so, that would make it fit underneath the barrel.
Both fittings are quite common. Generally, bayonets fit to the side until the era of breech loading and then began to shift to underneath.
If you were meaning the position of the blade to the barrel being horizontal or vertical? Both are common until the modern era.
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