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Na een tekstje op Old Smithy's site over Anthony Carter gelezen te hebben wou ik toch wel wat meer over hem weten.

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This blade came with provenance showing it is one of the bayonets imported into the UK by Anthony Carter and sold in 1977, these blades are unmarked except for the frog wear


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Last Updated: 9:50PM BST 05 Jul 2002

Anthony Carter, who has died aged 58, spent his whole life in singleminded devotion to the study, promotion and sale of late 19th and 20th century bayonets.

These well-documented weapons were mass-produced in a rich variety of models which could serve not only as lances, cutlasses and knives but also as saws, trowels, and even wire cutters. When Carter became fascinated by them as a boy, they commanded less interest among collectors than swords or muskets. Nevertheless, there was sufficient demand for him to be able to set up as a dealer. He found ample stocks in junk shops and army surplus stores at home and abroad, as armies recognised the declining importance of hand-to-hand fighting in modern warfare.

In time Carter became the leading British authority. He produced a series of learned books, and had a long running column in Guns Review in which he examined such knotty questions as the existence of the legendary Nepalese kukri bayonet. He was particularly admired for his four volumes on German bayonets; even German collectors admitted that he left all other writers on the subject standing.

A typical Carter entry, on the British Rifle No 4 Mark 1, records that it had a slender cruciform blade which tapered to a sharp point and could be used only for thrusting. "In this respect it was adequate", he recorded with John Walter, in their book The Bayonet, 1850-1970, "since tests held in 1922-4 had convinced the authorities that the short blade was capable of killing even the most thickly clad enemy - who was taken to be a Russian in winter clothing. The spike was never popular with the troops, but it had the great advantage of simplicity that made it easy to make; it was also very cheap, in terms of money, material and labour."

In addition Carter wrote, and sometimes published for others, specialist works in allied fields. His three-volume Bayonet Belt Frogs, meticulously illustrated with his own drawings, is the only work on these accoutrements, which are used to hang scabbards from belts. As such it is known to collectors worldwide simply as "BBF".

John Anthony Carter was born on September 21 1943 at Loughton, Essex. His father, a surgeon, was a dogged patriot who stored weapons against the possibility of a German invasion; his mother was a keen collector of antiques.

Anthony spent his pocket money on a pair of First World War bayonets at the age of eight. He went to Uppingham, then read English and Philosophy at King's College, London, while running a bayonet stall in Portobello Road. He joined Christie's in London, where he worked in the fine art department; then, in 1969, he became deputy manager at the auction house's branch in Montreal.

Slipping easily into the persona of the Englishman Abroad, Tony Carter (or "TC", as he was known) found many bayonet bargains, and spent his lunchtimes at the Sir Winston Churchill pub. The customers never tired of military talk, to which the American draft-dodger behind the bar would contribute, and Carter would amuse the company by producing from his pocket an American trench knuckleduster which he carried in case his girlfriend's husband appeared.

When Christie's closed its operation in Montreal in 1971, Carter returned to England. Three years later he married Evelyn Palmer, with whom he was to have two daughters. For some years he produced catalogues, and later ran a website, for enthusiasts around the world. It was his misfortune that, when his marriage broke up, much of his collection had to be sold.

A man of great charm and elegance, he lived at Morton-on-the-Hill, Norfolk, on the estate of his sister, who had been married to a descendant of a bayonet manufacturing family. He was a fanatical viewer of Coronation Street and enjoyed walking his dogs and talking to a peacock called Fred, whom he named after The Daily Telegraph's Toronto correspondent, Fred Langan; Carter's only association with violence was his appearance as a murderous bayonet expert in Langan's novel, The Stringer.

Anthony Carter was working on a book about the the 1866 French Chassepot bayonet, which has a brass handle and wavy blade, and was completing his ground-breaking second volume on the German cutlery industry of Solingen when he died, after a hernia operation, on June 22.


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Hij was toch wel 1 van de pioniers van het bajonet verzamelen.
Door hem is zeker veel waardevolle info boven tafel gekomen waarvoor ik hem zeker dankbaar ben.

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