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Rare Lancay
Yes Carlo I see that it is for the commercial market. I found a back thread by member PANCANAL dated 5-16-06 which reads: These M9 Lan-Cay U.S.A. Bayonets have blood grooves. The middle one has a deep blood groove the two on the sides have shallow blood grooves. . . .Note that all three have M9 Lan-Cay USA, and flat grind edge instead of a hollow ground cutting edges. If you look at the die markings they are actually different. One has larger letters. . . Only a handfull were assembled with the larger letters. Less than 20 were assembled with the deep blood groove. Approximately 125 were assembled with the smaller letter die strike and the shallow blood groove. . . Pancanal
After reading this I must disagree with fellow collector Mister Moon in that the auctioned M9 is not "shit". Commercial M9's are quite collectable in their own right and if there were only 20 assembled with the deep blood grove, as Pancanal stated, then that M9 that was recently auctioned with the deep blood grove would be highly collectable.
Colin
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