. 1770 Heavy Dragoon Carbine Bayonet (Late Style)
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 |