Original Rare Model 1868 U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Trowel Bayonet & Scabbard- Dated Russian Machine Guns It has an interesting hammer-block

It has an interesting hammer-block safety

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Unissued Condition

This is ideal to hang over the fire place

Original Rare Model 1868 U.S. Springfield Trapdoor Trowel Bayonet & Scabbard- Dated Russian Machine Guns It has an interesting hammer-blockOriginal 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