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 1770 Heavy Dragoon Carbine Bayonet (Late Style)

OA 543mm Bl 428mm Sl 101mm Mrd 20mm Sm 51.5mm Bw 31mm

 

  

Bayonet marked with maker 'WOOLLEY',  James Woolley *1,  noted as BO supplier in 1793,  known to have worked at Edmund Street,  Birmingham in 1797.  Became 'WOOLLEY & DEAKIN' on the 30th April 1803,  therefore dating this bayonet as pre 1803.

  

(1) British & Commonwealth bayonets by Ian D Skennerton and Robert Richardson,  page 398,  ISBN 0 949749 04 4