Very unique folding blade bayonet for Mannlicher Carcano 1938 carbine. Blade folds back along the handle while the bayonet is fixed to the rifle. The “Royal Infantry Musket” Mannlicher-Carcano-Parravicino Rifle series is a group of Italian made bolt-action rifles and carbines that began with the Infantry Model 1891 and continued with rifles like the M1938, M91/38 and M91/41 until the end of the Second World War. It was the ordinance rifle used by Italian Soldiers in the First Italo-Ethiopian War (1896-1898) through to the Second World War.