About the m9 question

[Mister Moon]

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[Old-Smithy]

I just bought one of these Franklin mint commemertives, off EBAY for 75 dolalrs and was suprisingly the only bidder. Mine is only marked M9 and not Marto, and is in mint condition. Comes mounted on a repro M16 Barrel, very nice piece, now for a Marto marked blade, and that glorious Gold USMC that Carlo shows

[Carlo]

Originally Posted by Old-Smithy

I just bought one of these Franklin mint commemertives, off EBAY for 75 dolalrs and was suprisingly the only bidder. Mine is only marked M9 and not Marto, and is in mint condition. Comes mounted on a repro M16 Barrel, very nice piece, now for a Marto marked blade, and that glorious Gold USMC that Carlo shows

Hello,
congratulations!!!!!
I'd love to see pictures of your Franklin Mint commemorative!
From your message I did not understand if you were really looking for a Marto marked blade .... I have duplicates of both the green model marked M9/MARTO and the scarcer black one marked M9A1/MARTO, both complete with their original boxes and available for trade.

[Old-Smithy]

Carlo

I will be taking pictures and adding it to my site and its M9 page this weekend, i will post one here at the same time. I am after a Marto marked bayonet and was recently offered two one a commemerative and one a normal but at the moment both are out of my range, and i have little to offer by way of trade. I was very suprised to win this commemerative, it had a buy it now ow 450 but I won it at the opening bid of 75, sometimes you win

[Carlo]

Hello,
no problems!
I found the auction you won on ebay.
I guess you were the only bidder because the seller did not mention the word "M9" in the auction's title and/or description. This way it was not noticed.
Good for you!

[Old-Smithy]

My Franklin mint commemorative is opn my web site under USA in the new section - scroll almost to the bottom, i will see if i can figure how ot post here but pictures are only just uploading and i am off for a meal and a beer and ........

[Carlo]

Thanks!
Nice pictures and a great bayonet!
Hope to be able to find one too.

[Old-Smithy]

Well that wasnt that hard, despite it crashing IE. I was amazed and from his comment so was the seller at what a low price it went for, ishall have to keep my eyes open for another and then i may have something to trade for a Spain marked one

[Carlo]

Yes, please, keep looking!

[Carlo]

The following pictures are for you, Carl!
Now you can display this advertisement near your beautiful Franklin Mint commemorative.



Note that the blade marking still has the "MARTO" engraving