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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 11446224, member: 20148&quot;]An interesting piece of art that! Personally, I&#039;d leave it as the artist intended. As for the bayonet itself, it is, or was, a Prussian 1809 pattern &#039;Potsdam&#039; bayonet. These were generally in use from 1809 to 1839, when&nbsp; the new pattern was introduced. These bayonets were still in use and being imported into the US during the Civil War. So far as I am aware, there is no record of the Confederacy buying weapons from Prussia, though they may possibly have captured some quantities of them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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