Original Rare Model 1868 U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Trowel Bayonet & Scabbard- Dated Russian Machine Guns the production code number always

the production code number always fell below the alpha-numeric factory code

Unissued Condition

The tag inside this size 42 jacket has information regarding the maker and contract:

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Original Rare Model 1868 U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Trowel Bayonet & Scabbard- Dated Russian Machine Guns the production code number alwaysOriginal 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