French Model 1866 Chassepot Bayonet, with Scabbard, U66249

French Model 1866 Chassepot yatagan sword bayonet, exact manufacture location and date unknown, but definitely between 1866 and 1875. These were used on the French Model 1866 Chassepot single-shot, breach-loading, bolt-action infantry rifles.
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 are normally marked in script on the back-edge (opposite the cutting edge) with the arsenal, month, and year of manufacture (noted above), but not on this example. Various inspector(s) marks on hilt. Hilt is covered in dark oxide, but should clean up some. Blade has scattered dark oxide on the surface but should clean up nicely.
This one is stamped with the anchor on the cross-guard; it is assumed these so-marked were for marines or colonial troops.
Scabbard is sheet-rolled steel, with some bluing remaining. Several dents in scabbard. Blade fits snugly in scabbard.
Overall condition is fair to good.