HALL BREECHLOADING RIFLE BAYONET

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Item Code: 1179-1248

This is an excellent example, in the bright, as they were issued, with good edge and point, showing smooth metal with just some scattered gray, age spots. These look like the standard M1816 bayonet with T-shaped mortice, but have an extra notch in the bridge for the offset sight blade of the Hall rifle. They are noted by Reilly as relatively scarce. The bayonet is unmarked, as are most, with some 24,000 of the 29,593 made for the Hall M1819 and M1841 Rifles at Harpers Ferry, which felt little need to mark its bayonets. Reilly notes Hall bayonets with both 7” and 9” fullers, and suggests the latter were for the M1841 Hall. We measure this one’s fuller at about 8-1/4” – close enough we expect for the M1841 designation and note that Harpers Ferry made 4,213 of them from 1841 to 1842.

Halls were revolutionary (if not entirely successful) not only as breechloading arms but also as the first US rifles to be fitted for bayonets throughout their production run. This is very good example of a Hall bayonet that, given the variations noted by Reilly, can be a collecting subcategory of its own.  [sr][ph:L]

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