This was - for all practical purposes - an experimental knife bayonet in the "Bowie" style. It was intended as a utilitarian fighting knife/tool/bayonet, but did not stand up to testing. These were intended to fit the various US Krag-Jorgensen Military Rifles. Although the hilt is of this bayonet is the same as the U.S. Model 1892 Krag-Jorgensen Knife Bayonet - and of obvious Swiss influence - the blade is entirely of American "Bowie" design and style.

They are very well made, all steel, with wood grips. The hilt configuration is a "bird's head" pommel with the standard push-button/integral spring latch, steel crossguard; grips are wood and held on by flush-mounted rivets.
The blade is also well made: steel, single-fullered (both sides), single wide cutting-edge with clip-point in the "Bowie" style. Blades are marked US on one side of the ricasso, with a date of 1900 on the opposite side.

Scabbards are almost "bolo-style" in shape and are made of sheet-rolled steel and blued; ball finial as a drag. The belt attaching loop swivels side-to-side (front-to-back when on a side-belt).

These bayonets are scarce.