Production of a regulation fencing bayonet coincided with the 1852 publication of Captain (later, Maj. This example bears the socket marking “w” over “a” and “52.” Period whalebone blades are rarely encountered today. This example still has much of its original browned finish and the original thumbscrew for securing the blade. McNair) reported fabrication of 50 fencing bayonets. reports also show that Washington Arsenal (site of present-day Ft. Military Flintlock Muskets: The Later Years, Peter Schmidt documented that Watervliet Arsenal in New York produced 1,500 Type I fencing bayonets in 18. Its flexibility, pliability, and strength made it behave much like modern plastics. Baleen is taken from the whale’s mouth, so is not actually bone. The original M1816 bayonet blade was mostly cut away, then modified into a box receptacle that accepted a flexible whalebone (baleen) blade with a leather-covered India rubber or cork ball at the end. In 1964, Hardin introduced the designation “Type I” in his book, The American Bayonet. There was no official nomenclature for 19th Century regulation U.S.
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