Westinghouse 1891 Mosin Nagant with a Krag bayonet lug?

[rdelliott]

Guy I know over the internet has an 1891 Mosin Nagant with what appears to be the bayonet lug from a Krag Jorgensen installed on it, and is wondering just exactly how this might have come about:

http://www.weerdworld.com/2010/i-really-wish-it-could-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-3062

It's an interesting puzzle. The only country that I know of that used both Krags and Mosins, and might have decided to recycle their old Krag bayonets for use with their Mosins was the US, but the pics I've been able to find of American Mosins don't have the Krag lugs.

Any insight, O collective CGN milsurp brain trust?

 

[green]

Sounds like a Bannerman, Sedgely etc job. These companies had piles of surplus and would fit parts together. If there was a demand for MNs with bayonnets and they did not have MN bts they would fit another bayonet to it.
Is it a US made MN?

 

[JP]

Surplus WW1 US made Mosin-Nagant were sold off by Bannerman's of New York ending up being used in Military Schools, Veteran's Parade Units, etc... The cap was probably fitted by them to fill an order requiring a bayonet that was easily available.

 

[rdelliott]

Sounds like a Bannerman, Sedgely etc job. These companies had piles of surplus and would fit parts together. If there was a demand for MNs with bayonnets and they did not have MN bts they would fit another bayonet to it.
Is it a US made MN?

Yup, it's a Westinghouse.

 

[fugawi]

Yup, it's a Westinghouse.

I'm envious, that sounds like one cool M91. A NEW with a Krag bayonet lug. No Finnish or Imperial Russian markings - just NEW? Is it matching?

 

[rdelliott]

I'm envious, that sounds like one cool M91. A NEW with a Krag bayonet lug. No Finnish or Imperial Russian markings - just NEW? Is it matching?

There's some cyrillic on the stock that makes the owner think it made it to Russia at some point. I'm thinking Mass. to Russia to ? and then back across the Atlantic to Bannerman's...