![]() There are references in the FN Mauser book about Brazil building rifles from spare parts from both Lowe and FN years after the original contracts were let. Suspect most 1893 pattern Spanish bayonets would fit but haven't tried: looks like perhaps you did and it does? Blade length was about 12" (300 mm) which I think is same as the 1908 but am too lazy to dig one out to check. Vanderlinden identifies the standard FN produced bayonet as one with an elongated guard (as compared to the more common 1908 bayonet which used more of a 98 Mauser style bayonet arrangement) but with the same type quillon. Vanderlinden estimates about 20,000 carbines built between FN and Lowe with a non-letter prefix serial number and then an A letter prefix serial number. Lowe built (he estimates) 90,000 rifles in the serial number blocks A through H range (presumably blocks of 10,000) with FN making about 20,000 rifles with prefix numbers I and J. He speculates that Lowe and FN were partners in what was presumably the original contract. Paradoxically, the most info I have found on the Brazilian 1894 Mauser is Anthony Vanderlinden's book "FN Mauser Rifles: Arming Belgium and the World". He states Lowe production was from 1894-1896. Ball's book "Military Mauser Rifles of the World" 4th Edition indicates 3 producers of the 1894 Brazilian Mauser: Lowe, FN and DWM. ![]()
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