Hopefully I won’t get in trouble for this one, I think it might be illegal for me to carry this around. [Oh no! Is it a weapon?] It is a weapon. […] This is a Japanese bayonet, it’s a war trophy that my grandfather brought back from World War II. He didn’t kill anybody to get this, and hopefully nobody died so that he could have this. He was a quartermaster, so he didn’t carry a gun, he handled boxes to make sure supplies got to places […]. He bought this from a family after the war. This is a type 30 bayonet, they were made from about 1897 through the end of the war, and there were about 8.4 million made. This one is a rather rare model, it’s not one that was actually used in combat, this is a training model. […] This is something that would have come from a high school.

This belongs in the Museum of Poorly Conceived Classes

Exhibited by Paul Rettig

Transcript edited by Serena Washington