American Socket Bayonets, 1717-1873. Historical Arms Series No 3. de Webster, Donald - 1964

Alexandria Bay, New York: Museum Restoration Service, 1986. 2nd Printing. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 46 pages. Paperback pamphlet in white wrappers with a stapled spine. There is light wear to the binding. There is some smudging and residue from an old price sticker on the front cover. The text is clean and sound. Illustrated with drawings and diagrams.

Ottawa, Ontario: Museum Restoration Services, 1964. Octavo, paperbound (slick, stapled white wrappers), 47 pp. Front cover cleanly detached; otherwise, a very attractive copy, interior clean & tight. From Foreword: Bayonets -- and bayonets. We are all familiar with them, but how much do we really know about them? Even the stoutest of collectors might well quail before the task of identifying a half-hundred angular bayonets, all generally similar, yet each one diferent in its details. Where to start? We might know a few of them, and make educated guesses about more, but on the whole our box score wouldn’t be too impressive. The identification of arms accessories is, on the whole, rather more diffuclt than that of the weapons themselves; most accessories are unmarked, and all too often no really adequate description from which they can be recognzied was made during their period of use. For many years, the primary emphasis in arms study has been quite properly directed toward the major… Leer más

Place_Pub: Ottawa: Museum Restoration Service, 1964. fair to good. 47, wraps, profusely illus., table, bibliography, covers soiled and some edge wear, text somewhat creased. A manual to assist in the identification of the socket bayonets used in the United States. Includes French, British, German, and American bayonets, with drawings to illustrate the differences and measurements.

Ottawa: Museum Restoration Service, 1977. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 47 pages. Bibliography. Generously illustrated with detailed diagrams supported with considerable text. "Provides a basis for evaluating and perhaps eventually identifying the more esoteric 'unknowns' in our collections." - Foreword. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy..