I'm here with Colonel retired colonel Peter Kilburn and we're in Seattle Washington and
Colonel Kilburn has decided to let us auction his collection of bayonets
and associated items and you've got three major groups to your collection,
why don't you just explain that to us and then kind of show us the collection,
and if I need to come around and see the other side the camera is portable, so go ahead. Well,
I've been collecting for over 65 years. I always like swords, but could never afford them and,
they were too dangerous, but I went to a surplus store with my dad and they had a barrel bayonets
so I got to pick a bayonet and kind of fell in love with them after that. I put up on the wall
I didn't play with it I didn't threaten kids and eventually I sold that one after I started
collecting. It was sort of what are you looking for? Well, it's sort of, what I don't have, and bayonets are still
the cheapest form of weapons collecting, they're getting more pricey now, with with age.
Bayonets are kind of interesting, they're collectible because they'll be to a certain
country a certain era a certain rifle, and those change so there are books that have all of this
information, and so if you want to know what you're looking for my problem I first started out there
was no bayonet books and I go to the gun shows and I see these tables with a mound of bayonets well
kid what are you looking for well I don't know it's just what I don't have and then I'll find
little variations then I got a bayonet book small and I saw what it didn't have and locked in what
I did have and so I had something to seek and of course any kind of collector the more you get the
more you want I did world bayonets well I ran out of space and so I pardon the pun cut it down to us
United Kingdom which includes Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa and Germany and those
are the most collectible so I have a catalogue set up here this first rack is part one United States
and they're in chronological order from Revolutionary War I'm down to World War
two the early Revolutionary War ones of course weren't necessarily us made vain
us because they didn't have the methods yet so a lot of them are imported from
Britain Germany Holland various other places then they became us bayonets I have Civil
War bayonets in this area Confederate and US on down this is first section
this is us band that's a British band these are us bayonets letter openers here then we start
with the British from 1616 leonard's on up to modern us yes 1700s on up to modern and of the
modern I've probably got 35 or 40 different varieties of the present m9 bayonet that's
on the other side I can't see that okay so let me unplug here for a minute we'll go around and see
those but these are all different manufacturer varieties different manufacturers are different
models of the present m9 yeah okay now this one here we're not gonna sell he's keeping this one
this one's a special Desert Storm bayonet that has his name on it so that one should
be kept by him these other ones though you even have a Coast Guard one which was pretty
interesting the orange one I guess these are for Arctic warfare or something the white ones
yeah like Mountain Division would probably use those experimental type to a different
manufacturer same type different scabbard and style mm-hm this is a training bayonet
I always wondered how they would do that so someone didn't get cut when
they were all right you know in the movies they're always using a real bayonet and I
thought I don't think so they do a lot with that I'm gonna learn honey
mentioned the movies this is a really proper hmm
it's it looks just like the World War two but it's cast metal and that's a
okay this is Great Britain or I came in part two including 1858 saber bayonets and the
double-barrel Jacobs bayonets the varieties they're all they look somewhere but they're
all different including the the new present-day British pea these are Australia and down here I'm
sorry Canadian Australia New Zealand and different different varieties of these from W rats next
Germany part one the colored nuts are each company each division had their own specific
color pattern and the nuts don't necessarily go with a bayonet of that but they're same
era World War one thereabouts and the loose tassels where when you get down to World War
Two in between they're solid like this but these are again chronologically from the
seventeen hundreds up to the Weimar period between the wars black hilts also have a
interesting rule paperweight from the museum in Germany it has a bayonet letter opener
that was from that same period wasn't correct yeah
just a cousin come home cross on it but many of these are
engraved doubly engraved
so up a lot of the book like externally they've got engraved blades
this what we call our sons bayonets there was pattern of the blade length and the hilt length
so it would fit the rifle but the muzzle ring they'll take several different diameter muscles
specifically for captured British belgium or french rifles so they could use those on their
second line truths these are all different Anthony Carter wrote a book called air saw bayonets and in
that he's got many different varieties and so I've got these numbered along with that book so you
can reference it right away this is world war ii german nazi era the germans always had to be armed
so that's why there's always a lot of dressed bayonets and dressed daggers but they would
wear we have the stag grips and engraved blades on some of them and a mock stag which is wood curved
to look like a stag you have the grip emblems and you have the plain plastic grips this length
is what they call the enlisted man's blanket this length here which is shorter is NCOs and
officers would be here these are police bandits and these are fire police bayonets from early ones
bottom here we have West German bayonets and East German these are ak-47 trainers we had one kind
of special bayonet that and then cut down are made from a claymore sword why don't you show
me that one again that was really neat okay this one is probably my favorite it's a 1805 bayonet
English bayonet is like this this particular one is a Scottish version and instead of the
brass hilt like this it's steel and instead of a typical bayonet blade it's an old broad
serve blade and it's by Runkle and company and Solingen that company made blades from Scottish
broad swords or claymores from 1710 to 1740 so the Scots in their wisdom used a British bayonet
the fit of British rifle and put a Scottish blade on it and this is a real real sword blade not on
iron bayonet blade because all of these are confiscated or outlawed after the Battle of
Culloden Moor in 1745 but I've guessed by my favorite one just because it's old and
it's sort of an in-your-face type excellent have some bayonet sconces or some few other
things around got lots of Prague's and scabbard parts all right since that much thank you so