Bayonet
- Object Name:
- Bayonet
- Object ID:
- 1991.107.01 b
- Creator:
- Baker, C.
- Date:
- 1795-1808
- Description:
- Bayonet. Model 1795 socket bayonet. Steel. 14.5" triangular blade with 7.5" flute on underside of blade beginning at the point; rounded elbow with flat underside; "L" shaped mortise, on side of socket; heart and diamond mark stamped at head of blade on the underside; rounded reinforcing collar, at rear of socket; 1.75" horizontal piece of steel screwed in near reinforcing collar extends across short side of "L" shaped mortise, used as locking device to secure bayonet to firearm.
- Material:
- Metal
Steel - Dimensions:
- W-1 L-17.5 inches
- Provenance:
- The donor is the great-great-great grandson of Peter Kimball (1739-1811) of Boscawen, who according to family oral tradition used the musket and bayonet. Believed to be "the Hessian musket".
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Rodney C. Woodman, Jr.
- Subjects:
- Arms & armament, War
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