French Model 1866 Chassepot Bayonet, with Scabbard, German Regimental Marks

French Model 1866 Chassepot yatagan sword bayonet, manufactured at the Imperial Arsenal of Chatellerault, December 1867. This example is German regimental-marked, "115.L.L.3.207". These modified bayonets were either captured Franco-Prussian War weapons, pressed into service for home huards, or war reparation bayonets utilized in the post-Franco-Prussian War era. Many of these were modified by the Germans for "home guards" and dispatched to other units, generally not front-line troops.
Brass-hilted with a spring steel latching arrangement on the right side. The crossguard is iron (steel) and has a screw-type tightening arrangement on the muzzle-ring. The lower quillon is a hooked "blade-breaker" type. The blade is steel, single-edged, fullered (both sides), with a re-curved or "yataghan-shape", and is ~22-3/4" in length. Blades marked in script on the back-edge (opposite the cutting edge) with the arsenal, month, and year of manufacture noted above).
Scabbard has been modied to the German Model 1871 (and others) tear-drop-style throg (aka frog) stud. Overall condition is about good to very-good scattered minor oxidation patina overall.