| GarrisonMiniatures | 16 Aug 2009 3:39 a.m. PST |
auction I mean, talk about forward planning! |
 Doms Decals  | 16 Aug 2009 4:36 a.m. PST |
Oh that was good for a laugh – it's great to see the provenance of an item properly researched…. |
| Cold Steel | 16 Aug 2009 4:58 a.m. PST |
I thought it speaks volumes about the RAF's confidence in their early aircraft.  |
 John the OFM  | 16 Aug 2009 7:17 a.m. PST |
"Ginger, stand by to repel boarders." |
| Gattamalata | 16 Aug 2009 7:19 a.m. PST |
Looks more like a sword bayonet, so I guess pilots were supposed to duel with them in the air, being as some were cavalry officers… |
| Doms Decals | 16 Aug 2009 7:41 a.m. PST |
I think a few people are missing an even more basic point – the RAF certainly had rifles and bayonets as regular issue (standing sentry in a Sopwith Camel's a  ….) but it wasn't formed until 1918…. |
 McKinstry  | 16 Aug 2009 7:53 a.m. PST |
I really admire a man who knows better but still plows ahead regardless of the facts. The seller says, 'Yes, I know the RAF didn't exist until 1918 but somebody else says this is from 1907 so by God, I'm sticking with it.' |
| Doms Decals | 16 Aug 2009 7:55 a.m. PST |
I've dropped him an email actually – to be fair it sure does look like a 1907 *pattern* but the date of manufacture is certainly post-WWI, and might even be a fair bit later than that…. |
| Black Cavalier | 16 Aug 2009 9:35 a.m. PST |
The problem is that the seller didn't know that in this case RAF stands for Really Arsed Fool |
| fred12df | 16 Aug 2009 10:47 a.m. PST |
I dropped him a line – asked "when was the RAF founded" -- got the following reply
"I have had a few emails saying it was 1918 but on the sticker it says 1907 RAF bayonet? I brought if from an antiques dealer a few years ago …" Sticker??? |
| zoneofcontrol | 16 Aug 2009 11:11 a.m. PST |
fred12df – "Sticker???"
Yes, "Made In Taiwan" |
| Pictors Studio | 16 Aug 2009 11:12 a.m. PST |
"I guess pilots were supposed to duel with them in the air, being as some were cavalry officers" Yeah, there was probably some of that stuff going on. Sort of like this: picture I guess GW will need to make a commissar with a sword for their valkyrie model now. "Sticker???" Probably before they had the advanced technology to write on metal they had to put stickers on them. The romans, I'm sure, had stickers saying SPQR on their swords. Also the famous Spartan Lambda was a transfer. Not many people know that. The figures, in that sense, can be more accurate than you think. |
| Volstagg Vanir | 16 Aug 2009 12:45 p.m. PST |
Given this thread:
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I am of the opinion that '1907' refers to something else entirely, in context Hmmm….
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1907 appears to be the type, as well as a date the type was implemented- Ah, here we go:
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The early tapering MK. I was supplemented by the MK. II in 1942 So: '1907' is an abbreviated way to refer to the "No. 1 Mk. I (1907) bayonet". Apparently not all that rare… |
