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