Original Rare British No.8 Bowie Bladed Bayonet for the Self Loading Experimental Rifle with Scabbard Scottish Militaria Slight damage and cracking to

Slight damage and cracking to each bone grip covering commensurate with age

This simple design replaced the earlier "piped back" type

The markings are in silver paint

and was ranked as the 4th Regiment of Horse

Original Rare British No.8 Bowie Bladed Bayonet for the Self Loading Experimental Rifle with Scabbard Scottish Militaria Slight damage and cracking toOriginal Item: Only One Available. Now these are extremely rare! The British No. 8 "Bowie Knife" bayonet was developed at Royal Ordnance Factory Poole in 1946 for the Self Loading Experimental Rifle (SLEM). This rifle was not adopted, and as a result only 2,400 of these bayonets were ever produced. The design is very similar the the well known no. 5 jungle carbine bayonet, and in fact many of the same parts were used. The experimental bayonets were