Aluminum Training Bayonet or Childs Toy ?

[Wedgehead30]

So I picked this up with a bunch of military knives. It's got me perplexed. Seems like it could be a trainer of some type or simply a toy. No markings of any type. Can anyone identify it?

Thanks,

Scott

 

[Wedgehead30]

[Wedgehead30]

[Bob Hudson]

my guess would be a toy bayonet minus its grips.

[Bob Hudson]

my guess would be a toy bayonet minus its grips.

 

In thinking about it more: a parade bayonet for, say, a school drill team?

[Brig]

I'll go with toy...the ring for the barrel has no hole to affix, so kind of hard to use it properly for training

[Wedgehead30]

Thanks guys. You know the more I look at it, I'm starting to think it's a rough casting. It needs the final steps of drilling out the muzzle ring, fitting the the grips, maybe some polishing. Then you have a toy or parade piece or whatever.

[Ronnie]

Could also be a movie prop. The movie "Sands of Iwo Jima" has a prop very similar but was made from cast iron. It also had no provision for attaching to the weapon. It was simply a sheath filler for the pack. During the Tarawa landing you can see the bayonet which was carried by the guy that gets whacked trying to blow up the pill box. I had one exactly like it in my collection.

Ronnie

[marysdad]

If I recall correctly, this is a Canadian bayonet for some sort of trainer rifle. Frank Trzaska sold one of these in the last couple of years.