First Contract LanCay Bayonet with blood groove

[Quarterbore]

Welcome Rex....

I have seen your name on a great many auctions I had tried to win... I am glad you decided to join!

[rexmeyer]

Thankyou it is a pleasure to be on your forum here...I have noticed bidding against you and a few others on here, which makes it harder to win the auctions on ebay, but I manage to win at least a few.. I have been trying to at least get some of the harder m-9's out there but haven't been too sucessful....

[porterkids]

Hello Rex,

Welcome to the forum. This is undoubtedly the best place on the web to find information on the M9 bayonet. I know that you and I have gone for some of the same bayonets on ebay in the past. There seems to be a growing interest in them which makes it harder and harder to pick up good pieces at reasonable prices. I'm just glad that I started collecting them in 1987 before anyone was really interested in them.

If this works correctly, I'm posting three photos below of a regular fullered first contract LanCay and a shallow fuller LanCay. It is a fairly hard piece to find as the only made somewhere aroung 300-350 of them before eliminating the fuller completely. Be careful, though, as there are some later manufactured ones floating around. These can be identified by the company marking "Lan-Cay".
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[rexmeyer]

Here goes the pictures of my 2 knives, I hope they are clear enough. Porterkids, thank you for the pictures of yours'. I know you are a very big time collector of which I have lost alot of the auctions to...

[porterkids]

The two bayonets show both appear to be standard pattern fullered bayonets. Are they both LanCay (vs. Lan-Cay) bayonets? Neither appers to be a shallow fuller.
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[rexmeyer]

Porterkids, the one on the right if you measure the width of the fuller is smaller than the one on the left. What are the dementions, width and length of yours? On mine the one on the left is 15/32 wide, by 3 5/16 long. The one on the right is 13/32 wide by 3 1/4 long... Rex

[Carlo]

Originally Posted by porterkids

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I'm posting three photos below of a regular fullered first contract LanCay and a shallow fuller LanCay. It is a fairly hard piece to find as the only made somewhere aroung 300-350 of them before eliminating the fuller completely. Be careful, though, as there are some later manufactured ones floating around. These can be identified by the company marking "Lan-Cay".

Please take a look at this ebay auction.
Seems like it is one of the later manufactured shallow fuller M9 Lan-Cay porterkids was referring to.

[Quarterbore]

Yes, very intersting indeed! I have uploaded the images from the auction here so that we have them... Note that the bayonet sheath is a much later style in addition to the different blade markings. It is intersting as well that the blade propfile is the older "pre-product improved profile" as well.

Here is the description from the auction:

M9 Lan-Cay Bayonet in Mint condition. Rare forged Lan-Cay marked blade with a shallow blood groove. Gray blade has the old style step near the handle, old style saw teeth, and a flat grind cutting edge. This is a lighter blade. The olive green scabbard is marked Lan-Cay and has the sharpening stone on the back. The olive green handle is the straight earlier type. Absolutely beautiful set! Please study pictures carefully. Very few made like this. This is an original Lan-Cay manufactured bayonet.

Edit for follow-up... this knife sold for the Buy It Now price of $135

[Carlo]

here it comes again......one more Lan-Cay shallow fullered M9 for sale now in desert tan color!
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[Quarterbore]

Well, it sure looks like someone is putting together their own unique assortment of knives, huh?

Here is the text so we have it...

M9 Lan-Cay Desert Tan Bayonet in Mint condition. Rare forged Lan-Cay marked blade with a shallow blood groove. Gray blade has the old style step near the handle, old style saw teeth, and a flat grind cutting edge. This is a lighter blade. The Desert Tan scabbard is marked Lan-Cay and does not have a sharpening stone on the back. The Desert Tan handle is the straight earlier type. Absolutely beautiful set! Very few made like this. Note: There are two variations of this type of Lan-Cay bayonet. The earlier variation has smaller letters and this later variation with the large letters. The letter M and the 9 are also different. Which one do you have? Please study pictures carefully. This is an original Lan-Cay manufactured bayonet.

I have allso attached the images... I am dying to know just what he means with the words "This is an original Lan-Cay manufactured bayonet"? Is this an "Original" meaning you won't see another like it or "original" as it left LanCay in this configuration?

I wonder what the fastex date code is on it?