Help me ID this enfield bayonet

[Power Pill]

It's for a No1 Mk3

It appears to have a tiger head/face engraved on, but I cannot make out the writing on it...

Those are the only markings on it. So year and country of origin, I've no idea

 

[Nabs]

Contract Pattern 1907 bayonet for the Siamese in the 1920s.

 

[Power Pill]

any idea on the value?

 

[Nabs]

By itself ? I'm honestly not sure as it is missing the scabbard and unique frog.

 

[John Sukey]

Just a note, the King of Siam at the time had attended Sandhurst as a cadet, so he was a bit biased on his selection.

 

[Power Pill]

By itself ? I'm honestly not sure as it is missing the scabbard and unique frog.

frog?

 

[Winchester-1897]

The leather that holds the scabbard which attaches to belt

 

[JP]

It was also issued with a modified steel bodied scabbard, that one will be basically impossible to find.

 

[John Sukey]

I have one of those. The steel scabbard was used because the leather ones rotted in that climate. I should think the leather scabbard would be the hard one to find

 

[wolf19534]

I have a "Smiling Tiger" Enfield....If you have a bayo or a scabbard or the frog for this rifle and are willing to sell .....just PM

 

[TheTooner]

Just a note, the King of Siam at the time had attended Sandhurst as a cadet, so he was a bit biased on his selection.

That worked very well. We were still doing it when I was there in the 1980s. Cadets who complained too much about "overseas cadets" not pulling their weight would have it pointed out to them that the fees paid by a foreign government to have one of theirs attend covered the cost of two or three British cadets, and the potential positive effect on defence equipment sales to those countries later was great.

 

[smellie]

The year was 1920, the Great War had just ended.

The King bought ten thousand brand-new SMLE rifles from BSA for his Wild Tiger Militia.

Likely he could have got them very cheap, or even free, from the British Government, but he wanted his OWN rifles with his OWN markings.

I do notice a number of Broad-Arrow marked parts in some of these.

I REALLY hope they gave him a very good deal.

The Siamese rifles represent TWO-TENTHS OF ONE PERCENT of SMLE manufacture and they went to the most hostile climate in the world. In Viet Nam, an American barrel on a M1911A1 lasted a WEEK out in the jungle; these rifles are nearly a CENTURY old now. They must have something going for them, one would think.