Links
The following links are recommended by me. They have proven to be
very good and are made by very dedicated bayonet collectors and/or
dealers.
www.bajonet.be
Kristofer Verjans's excellent website in which a lot of
bayonets from different countries are described. It also has a very active forum
of bayonet collectors (I myself am also a proud member of the Bajonet.be Forum).
www.ebayonet.com
Dennis D. Ottobre's ("Otto") militaria website and is
specialized in collectable bayonets. Next to collecting and selling bayonets,
Otto also writes and sells very good eBooks such as "Bayonets of
Afghanistan" and "Observations on Turkish Bayonets".
www.bayonetsonline.com
Ron Riede's very good website that sells rare bayonets but also
acts as an excellent tool to help you identify and to determine rarity of your
bayonets. It has both a Free as a Paid membership section. (I also am a member
of the Paid section...it is worth every penny.)
www.old-smithy.info
One of my favorite websites. It has many info on all sorts of
bayonets from all over the world. You also can find dedicated pages (articles)
on specific bayonets.
www.irishbayonets.com
It was because I visited Michael Curran's excellent website about
Irish Bayonets that gave me the idea to make my own website about Dutch
Bayonets.
www.worldbayonets.com
Ralph Cobbs's famous website about bayonets. Here you can find
information about all sorts of bayonets but also on how to collect them etc,
etc.
www.bayonetconnection.com
At Shawn Gibson's website you can find the most rarest and
scarcest bayonets. I bought my Dutch AR-10 bayonet from him and I have to say
that Shawn sells excellent quality bayonets for a fair price.
www.edgedweapons.nl
Dutch online bayonet and other edged-weapons dealer with a very nice collection
of Dutch Bayonets. Also sells bayonets from other countries.
BCN
This is the BCN (Bayonet Collectors Network) public website. The
BCN is the leading worldwide organization of bayonet collectors. I'm also a
proud member of the BCN.
The Maddox
Collection
This the most inspiring bayonet collector of my time! If it
wasn't for him and his bible on bayonets and bayonet collecting, I was still
collecting cutterly.
Collecting Bayonets by J.A.
Maddox
The absolute Bayonet Collectors Bible! Every serious Bayonet
Collector should have one...and only they do! This was the man that first
welcomed me in the BCN and I keep a copy of it in my "Collecting
Bayonets" Book. The name "Collecting Dutch Bayonets" is my
tribute to this man!
Seitengewehr
On this very nice site you can find photos and factual info on
bayonets & certain military surplus fire arms, etc.
Bayonetplus
Derek's virtual collection of British & Commonwealth
bayonets. Here you can find a lot of info regarding (regimental) markings, rare
and common bayonet types etc etc. Derek also shows some of his bayonets that are
on sale.
www.oldbayos.com
Interesting site with a bayonet-database and many more.
www.sipublicaties.nl
One of the finest book writers, researchers & sellers about firearms
& bayonets in the world! They are the ones that are holding the official
Kiesling rights and publicize the famous Kiesling "Bayonets of the World -
The Complete Edition". They also publicize many books (in English) about
Dutch, German, USA, British etc weapons. I truly recommend to take a look in
their online bookstore!
www.jjmilitaryantiques.com
Jason Kaplan's site is a absolute 'To-Go-to' website! This guy
has a lot of bayonets and swords for sale. Although he also sells some of them
on eBay.com, the best finds you will do is on his own website. Jason is
recommended by one of the finest fellow collector that I know. Enjoy! (The best
thing is that he is selling very nice Dutch M4 bayonets!).
USA...With
the Help of the Dutch
To be honest...this has nothing to do with collecting bayonets,
but it is a piece of history every American & Dutch should know!
There are more links to follow.