WWI ROSS RIFLE BAYONET AND SHEATH - 1915 ORIGINAL

This Ross Rifle 1910 Mark II bayonet and sheath comes with the markings:  ROSS RIFLE CO. / QUEBEC / PATENTED 1907 

Other side of pommel has various acceptance/inspection marks.

Two-character designation II (for MkII);

A "Broad arrow in a C," the Canadian Government Ownership Mark;

The "crown over number 4" is a Ross Factory Inspection mark; and the issue date is  7/15 (JULY 1915).

The .303 Ross Rifle and Bayonet were used by Canadian units in WWI from about 1914 to 1918. They were phased-out - when possible - by the .303 Lee-Enfield Rifle and Bayonet.

Received from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles Museum, Canada.  The museum was selling off some of there museum’s items, to make room for more.  The museum called it deaccessioning surplus museum artifacts.

The museum numbers their items for inventory purposes and you will see that there is a very small white numbered sticker/or marking on this item put there by the museum.  They are very easy to remove.

This is a knife bayonet from the period of 1908 into WWI; it was produced parallel with - and in reality replaced by - the Canadian version of the British Pattern 1907. Except for markings, it is virtually identical to the US Ross Model 1905.
There is much confusion over the correct name/model for this bayonet and it has been known by many different titles: Canadian Ross Rifle Bayonet, Model 1910 (aka Mark I Ross; aka Model 1905; aka Model 1905/1910; aka Pattern 1908; aka Model 1910, etc). The 1905 designation is due to the 1905 adoption and issue of the .303 caliber Ross Rifle. However, the Ross was not originally equipped to allow attachment of a bayonet. The bayonet was officially adopted in 1908 - although patented prior to that in 1907 - but was not issued until 1910 (the confusion over model-year designation becomes very apparent). In reality this bayonet is best known as the Ross Rifle 1910 Mark II Bayonet.