THE COLLECTORS BOOK
OF GERMAN BAYONETS
OF GERMAN BAYONETS
1680-1945
PART ONE
by
ROY WILLIAMS
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For many years collectors of German bayonets have had to buy bayonet reference books from a variety of sources, each with a different way of listing individual specimens or groups, and often contained within larger volumes that show bayonets from all over the world.
This two part publication privately published by the author, is an attempt to give both new and established collectors a comprehensive guide that clearly identifies the rare and unusual from the more common bayonets. Starting at the earliest date and keeping original, modified and later types in family groups. Each full length bayonet photograph has been numbered in sequence, with a brief description of the model type and scabbard, plus details of the manufacturers trademarks, regimental markings & dimensions. I have also added some interesting troop photographs and where possible shown bayonets fixed to the rifle.
The first part contains hundreds of detailed photographs of many interesting & unrecorded specimens from collections throughout the world.
This two part publication privately published by the author, is an attempt to give both new and established collectors a comprehensive guide that clearly identifies the rare and unusual from the more common bayonets. Starting at the earliest date and keeping original, modified and later types in family groups. Each full length bayonet photograph has been numbered in sequence, with a brief description of the model type and scabbard, plus details of the manufacturers trademarks, regimental markings & dimensions. I have also added some interesting troop photographs and where possible shown bayonets fixed to the rifle.
The first part contains hundreds of detailed photographs of many interesting & unrecorded specimens from collections throughout the world.
November 2007
PART ONE - Available Now
Price: £57.50 + postage and packing.
Limited Edition of 620 copies, A5 size, with hardback colour cover and 552 interior pages printed in black & white, with over 2000 photographs.
Containing examples from the German States before 1870, Prussian, Bavarian, Saxon and Württemberg sword and knife bayonet types, bayonets from 1870-1900 with the makers and regimental markings photographed, rare trials and experimental types and bayonets used during World War I including the 98/05 makers.
PART TWO - Available December 2008
A5 size, with hardback colour cover and 600 interior pages printed in black & white.
Containing detailed photographs of trench knife bayonets, the ersatz types using blades under 12 inches in length, ersatz bayonets with steel and brass hilts that utilise obsolete socket blades, captured & altered types from Europe and the United States. Plus many wartime troop photos.
NEW PUBLICATION DATE - Available December 2008
I am busily working on "Part Two" that has now become more than 850 pages so there will now have to be a "Part Three" for the Weimar, 3rd Reich and hunting/dress bayonets. Part Two has become very complicated because of all the new information from bayonets found in Afghanistan by British and N.American troops, so it will probably take a further 8-12 months before I can be sure that all this new information and photographs are correct. Sorry if you are disappointed with news of this update but I can assure you it will be worth the wait. A5 size, with hardback colour cover and 600 interior pages printed in black & white.
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