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Herman:

I gotta admit that this is a new one for me.

The dress bayonet does have the very early ACS trademark that one can sometimes find on the earliest of Alcoso Heers.

During the TR era, Alcoso did not have their own in house etching, but purchased all of their etches from Holler. This pattern is not a Holler pattern, but could have been a very early attempt to etch own blades, a practice eventually given up by the firm when it became easier and cheaper to outsource the etch production.

So, I must say that I do not know if this is real or not and period or not, but, if period, for sure it is pre TR.

John