This example has been converted into a dress saber, by filling the mounting slot and press stud, nickel-plating the entire bayonet, and replacing the original gutta-percha grips with satinwood inlaid with mother-of-pearl. 200,000 of these large, heavy sword bayonets were made. of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, for their manufacture. They subcontracted with Ames Manufacturing Co. obtained an 1875 contract with the Turkish government for Peabody-Martini rifles with saber bayonets. Hull's research also indicated that the Providence Tool Co. Turkish Peabody-Martini rifle alteration. (.45 caliber) M1874 Peabody-Martini rifle. Yataghan sword bayonet for use on the 11.4 mm. ceased Peabody-Martini rifle production in 1879, their bayonet manufacture also ceased. Upwards of 400,000 bayonets were manufactured and delivered to Turkey. The initial order of rifles were supplied with this socket bayonet. These rifles and bayonets were made in the 1870s by the Providence Tool Company in Providence, Rhode Island, based on a design patented by inventor Henry O. Research published in 2019 by Edward Hull in his book, Peabody Firearms, expanded on his earlier published work regarding bayonets used with the Peabody-Martini rifles. The socket is cut so that the bayonet hangs below the rifle's barrel. The socket is blued and the blade in the white. (.45 caliber) M1874 Peabody-Martini rifle, produced in the U.S.
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