Found old bayonet? Brown Bess?
I found in my attic a bayonet that I think from reading on here is a brown bess . It says Osborn in script with the crown and number 24 below it. Looks like BBA near the bottom but hard to read. The...
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Welcome Zook. And a tip of the hat to getting the pics posted on your first time out. The blade is certainly British, and almost certainly antique. Probably someone will recognize the maker, which...
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Hi Johnny, I am in Atlantic Canada. Nova Scotia. I bought this house last fall and it is in the Acadian section of NS. Now 1/2 hrNE is Annapolis Royal the first settled colony on the east coast, who I...
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Thanks for the additional info Zook. Your location increases the likelyhood that it is a Bess bayonet. A lot of them went to Atlantic Canada for Militia and Fencible Units which tended to be organized...
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This is a bayonet for an India Pattern Brown Bess made by Henry Osborn probably some time between 1797 and 1807. I am looking at this via a small screen, but the marking at the base of the blade could...
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The scabbard is very much rarer than the bayonet. Very few have survived.
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I am wanting to keep this, even if it is unknown as to how it eventually arrived in an old attic trunk (built in place so not mobile) filled with old xmas decorations, paper. I am going to assume like...
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Fell apart is a good way to put it. There is also normally a brass tip to the bottom end called the Chape which is the first thing to get lost. I recommend treating the leather generously with Pecards...
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Sometimes I marvel at coincidence. About an hour after finishing my last post on this Osborn marked Bayonet, I found another marked identically on an auction site. There was no scabbard, and the...
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Hey Johnny, Congrats on your new purchase. That is some co-incidence to be sure. Thanks for that info on value. I wonder if its worth sitting on display with my other antiques of varied things or...
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