what is this old tool?

There's an auction going on with some stuff I'm interested in bidding on, and one lot I saw had this thing in it, I think the lot is just marked as "old tools". Anyone know what this thing is? I can't figure it out. Unfortunately there's only 2 pics that show it and they're almost the same angle. Kinda looks like a parking brake handle but I don't think that's it.

 

British lee enfield bayonet

 

Wow, just looked it up and sure enough! No wonder I didn't recognize it.

 

Just what everyone needs in your toolbox. Grease gun , hand crank drill , a draw knife and a bayonet. Lol

 

Gotta admit, if you could work it out, nobody else would have a parking brake handle like it.

 

Yeah, but did you buy it? Surely you did. It's too cool not to.........

 

Those bayonets can be worth more than the gun itself

 

Not the spike bayonet. Buy them for $25 currently. The blade bayonet is desirable.

 

Yeah I had to buy a reproduction when I restored a jungle Enfield

 

Auction doesn't end until tomorrow, current bid is 9 bucks. There's some other items in this auction that I'm after. I don't want to make a special trip just for this particular lot, but if it looks like I'm for sure going to get at least one of the other items I'm shooting for, I'll probably throw a bid in there, just for fun. As Gary Macdonald pointed out, they're not really worth much. But it's still kinda neat, and currently dirt cheap.

 

Those old grease guns are great for making a hand fuel pump
https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/hand-fuel-pump-picture-info-thread.1259891/

 

Or a MK 2 Grenade ! HRP

 

Just have to make sure the scabbard is on when setting the the brake. It would be a great anti-theft device to leave it off afterwards.

 

My dad found 2 bayonets and ww1 helmets in an abandoned farmhouse in the 70’s when he did ashphalt and was part of the crew that did the “new” highway 400 going north out of Toronto .

one of the bayonets has 13 hash marks carved into the handle .

The helmets are long gone but the bayoneted are in a box somewhere .

 

I found a WW I dough boy helmet in a undeveloped field next to my house, it's severely rusted & pitted, liner no longer exist. HRP

 

Whew! That was close.... I opened this thread thinking someone had posted a picture of me!!

 

Spike and blade

 

I've got a German one, British one, and US one! Got the US rifle, was granddads from the euro theater, and have a luger he took off a nazi as well.

 

My SKS AK-47 has one mounted on it.... Mean lookin' thing!...

 

It'd be cool to have a hamb vintage arms thread. My son has a beautiful golden mountie 22 that was my dad's as a kid. Dad gave it to him. From the late 50s. Super fun lever action gun. Good varmint retaliation. Many a muskrat on my lake has heard its song and failed to tell the tale.

 

About 60 years ago I found a blade bayonet with a sawtooth edge on the top. I was told it was German and because of the sawtooth top edge it was not to be used according to some sort of pact.

 

There is a thread on the Garage Journal under Free Parking that is titled "Show Us Your Guns". That would be a good place to post and check out others.