Ontario Commemoratives

[pwcosol]

Someone ought to find out if Ontario retained or destroyed the stamping dies for their USMC & US Army commemorative bayonets. If they have done so, then it is likely there will be no more produced. However if not... who knows. As for what is "collectible" in M9 bayonets, it depends on what your aim is. When I started out, my intention was to acquire military contract variants, as produced by Phrobis/BUCK. But then, I found many of the Phrobis & BUCK commercial patterns also drew my interest, so decided to include them. Later I began to seek out LanCay military contract variants as well, and/or any of the color patterns utilized by military or para-military organizations (such as the case with limited numbers of the "rescue orange" Lan-Cay M9s). So far, I have avoided being drawn into the bottomless pit of Lan-Cay multi-colored commercial M9s, but I also thought the same about Phrobis commemoratives until I ended up with some...