France, Iii Republic. First War Re-Design Of The M1886 Lebel Épée Needle Point Bayonet GTRexclude 000 casualties

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France, Iii Republic. First War Re-Design Of The M1886 Lebel Épée Needle Point Bayonet GTRexclude 000 casualtiesThis bayonet features a 517 mm long distinct cruciform pe blade with needle point and is very sharp at the tip, magnetic, with a dark finish, unique for the time as most bayonets were using a knife style, marked with a "B" inside a circle and a "G" inside a circle below on the reverse ricasso, the blade embedded into the heavy steel crossguard that is designed with a ring for placement upon the barrel of a rifle at one end, while the other end has a