Original Item: Only One Available. This is a wonderful example of an extremely difficult to find Swedish Cutlass Bayonet, which appears to have seen extensive service more than likely during the War of the Seventh Coalition. The Hundred Days, also known as the War of the Seventh Coalition, marked the period between Napoleon's return from eleven months of exile on the island of Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815 (a period of 110 days). This period saw the War of the Seventh Coalition, and included the Waterloo Campaign, the Neapolitan War as well as several other minor campaigns. The phrase les Cent Jours (the hundred days) was first used by the prefect of Paris, Gaspard, comte de Chabrol, in his speech welcoming the king back to Paris on 8 July.

Napoleon returned while the Congress of Vienna was sitting. On 13 March, seven days before Napoleon reached Paris, the powers at the Congress of Vienna declared him an outlaw, and on 25 March Austria, Prussia, Russia and the United Kingdom, the four Great Powers and key members of the Seventh Coalition, bound themselves to put 150,000 men each into the field to end his rule. This set the stage for the last conflict in the Napoleonic Wars, the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo, the second restoration of the French kingdom, and the permanent exile of Napoleon to the distant island of Saint Helena, where he died in May 1821.

The hirschfänger bayonet was made to be used on the flintlock musket M/1815-20 (rifled) by the Swedish fältjägare (field jaegers). The number of bayonets produced is approximately around 800 since 800 field jaeger muskets were ordered.

The blade of the bayonet was made by cutting down the blade from the M/1773 pallasch. The bayonet was originally ordered to Jämtlands fältjäger corps (Jämtlands fältjäger korps).

The double-edged hollow ground blade measures approximately 23 ¾” with a 4 ¾” brass mounted hilt. The handle appears to have once been wrapped with a lovely leather with a separate wire wrap around the handle to give the user a better hold of the weapon. Most of the leather wrap is unfortunately missing as is the wire wrap and there are some chips present in the handle itself. The brass hilt is in wonderful condition and shows no signs of extensive damage other than a lovely darkened patina. We could not find any visible markings due to the amount of staining and oxidation on the blade.

A lovely, rather hard to find example that comes more than ready for further research and display.

Specifications:
Blade Length: 23 3/4"
Blade Style: Double Edged spear point
Overall length: 28 1/2“
Basket dimensions: 4 1/2" width x 4 1/2” length

Jämtland Ranger Corps
The Jämtland Ranger Corps (Swedish: Jämtlands fältjägarkår, JFK), is a Swedish Army infantry unit that operated in various forms the years 1670–1983, 1990–1997, 2000–2005 and 2021–present. The unit was located in Östersund Garrison in Östersund.

The regiment had its origin in Ångermanlands, Medelpads och Jämtlands regemente raised in 1646 in the newly conquered province Jämtland, although the men were mostly recruited in the old Swedish provinces of Ångermanland and Medelpad. The regiment was also called Thomas Gärffelts regemente after its first commander.

The regiment was disbanded in 1661 as the recruitment provinces were transferred to the navy. But some companies of the regiment did exist until 1670, when they were incorporated in the newly raised Jämtlands regemente till fot (or Anders Plantings regemente). From 1689 on, the regiment was named Jämtlands dragonregemente, but had only one company of cavalry troops. This company was later organized into Norrland Dragoon Regiment.

The regiment was renamed Jämtlands infanteriregemente in 1770 before gaining the present name in 1820. The regiment also had the name Jämtlands fältjägarkår a short period between 1853 and 1892. Jämtlands fältjägarregemente was garrisoned in Östersund and was given the designation I 23 (23rd Infantry Regiment) after a general order in 1816. This was changed to I 5 in 1927. For a short time in the 1990s, the regiment was merged with the mobilization unit Fältjägarbrigaden before being reorganized in 2000 back to a separate existence as Jämtlands fältjägarregemente. The regiment ceased training conscripts in 2004, and was completely disbanded by August 2006.