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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Having already redefined the field of American martial firearms history with his studies of small arms and flintcelebrated author/artist Robert M. locks Reilly now turns his attention to socket bayonets their scabbards and frogs. This comprehensive illustrated text covers all of the interesting and important models and variations from Colonial times through the post-Civil War period. With the growing popularity of socket bayonets among collectors the need for a standard reference work to expand upon the groundbreaking efforts of the now deceased Albert N. Hardin Jr. became evident; American Socket Bayonets and Scabbards fills this need and then some. In example after example author Reilly displays his consumate ability as an artist engaging style as a writer and exactitude as a researcher. And the fact that both bayonets and scabbards are covered two authoritative studies under one cover presents a true bargain to the reading public. Throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the socket bayonet was considered the basic primary infantry weapon and in this century Reilly’s American Socket Bayonets and Scabbards is the basic primary guide to this fascinating. frightening artifact of our military past. (MP)