Original Italian M1871/1915 Vetterli Rifle Shortened Bayonet with Scabbard Belgian Militaria above serial number 1167438

above serial number 1167438

the user can now trigger the grenade from a remote position by pulling the string

in October 1953 it would be redesignated again as the 187th Field Artillery Battalion

which ended World War I

Original Italian M1871/1915 Vetterli Rifle Shortened Bayonet with Scabbard Belgian Militaria above serial number 1167438Original Item: Only One Available. This very early Vetterli bayonet started life with a long 20" plus blade, with the long spring for the bayonet catch, and without the cut out lower muzzle ring that was introduced in 1875 indicated by Anthony Carter in his work World Bayonets 1800 to the Present. This example also still has its original composition grip scales. However, it was later modified in the WWI era from the Model 1870 issue to the Model of