Beautiful French Model 1866 Chassepot saber-bayonet, manufactured at the Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne in September 1876.
A beautiful, matching-numbered, dated French regulation piece, ideal for a collection dedicated to the Chassepot, the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, or 19th-century French weapons.
Model: Model 1866 Chassepot Saber-Bayonet.
Manufacturer: Manufacture d'Armes de Saint-Étienne.
Date: September 1876.
Era: Third Republic.
Overall length without scabbard: 69.5 cm.
Blade length: 57.5 cm.
Blade: Yatagan type.
Scabbard: Present, matching numbers.
Associated weapon: Chassepot Model 1866 rifle.
Functional spring.
Adopted with the famous Chassepot rifle, this bayonet is one of the emblematic pieces of French armament from the Second Empire and the beginning of the Third Republic. The Chassepot system was notably the regulation French weapon during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871.
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