The Uber-Ultimate Barn Find

[njsteve]

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Awesome find...

Have you called Christie's yet to see what it's worth??

MB

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Every time I contact some "expert" on bayonets, they always end up steering the conversation to whether I want to get rid of it. That's usually a big red flag that they're not telling me the truth about the value.

One collector said the only other duplicate of this one was in the Tower of London Museum. I guess it's kind of unique or just that the vast majority of them were long rusted away. This one is remarkably well preserved because it was at the bottom of a pit that was used to dump waste oil for decades (maybe centuries). The farmland dates back to the mid 1700's

Anyway, if I sold it then I wouldn't have anything to open paint cans with anymore.

I used to bring it for "show and tell day" to my kids' elementary schools when they would teach about the Revolutionary War, but recently the school administrators got too politically correct about prior American "conflicts" and hyper-fearful of anything resembling a weapon on their property.