Combined bayonet frog and Pioneer pick scabbard, Portuguese (c 1900)

Title	Combined bayonet frog and Pioneer pick scabbard
Nationality	Portuguese
Period	c 1900

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This rare piece of harness is for the 1886 and 1904 pattern bayonet and is a copy of the German original which turns a Pioneer's pick scabbard into a double use item to carry the bayonet as well. There is a small punch mark (AE?) on the reverse of the belt strap and there are tin liners to both sides of the pick scabbard.

The Pioneers represented approximately 10% of the men in each company, the rest somewhat less skilled men who would simply have carried an ordinary entrenching shovel.

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[Edged Weapons : Bayonets : German : 20th Century]

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