A clone of the French M1866 Chassepot bayonet, the Egyptian Remington bayonet is distinguished from the French M1866 by the lack of a chamfered mortise and lack of the tenon slot at the inside top of the muzzle ring.  The third picture at left shows the unslotted muzzle ring and last picture compares the Remington mortise (top) to that of the French M1866 bayonet (bottom).

These bayonets were made by three Solingen Germany firms: Alexander Coppel, Gebruder Weyersberg, and W. R. Kirschbaum. The markings have gone away on this example, save for the letter "B" on the forward face of the crosspiece.

The 60,000 rifles from the 1869 Egyptian contract were diverted to France for use in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71. A second contract for 55,000 rifles was made in 1874 and these were delivered to the Egyptian government.

Originally made in 1880, this Pattern 1876 bayonet was modified ca. 1903–08 at the Arsenal established at the Citadel of Saladin in Cairo following British occupation in 1882. Modifications include bushing the socket to reduce diameter and cutting away the bridge to clear the Martini-Enfield’s tall front sight. This modification did not alter the bayonet's original mortise, so the bayonet continued to fix at the right side of the barrel.

The socket length is 3.00 in. (76 mm.).

The Citadel Arsenal modification is a simpler approach vs. the Pattern 1876 bayonets modified at RSAF Enfield to create the Pattern 1895. The Enfield modification involved compressing the socket to the smaller diameter, filling the original mortise, and cutting a new mortise 90 degrees from the original to allow the bayonet to hang underneath the barrel when fixed.

Blade (Left): "74" over "6" in Arabic and prior marks lined through.

The Egyptian AKM bayonet is the only AKM bayonet with a distinctive chocolate brown color grip. The web retention strap is of looser weave than Russian and East German retention straps; and is a dark emerald green color.

The tan leather belt hanger is 4.375 in. (110 mm.) long by 0.625 in. (15.8 mm.) wide., with the metal parts painted black. The scabbard is painted black, with a black insulator.

The fit and finish on Egyptian bayonets is more crude than other AKM Type II bayonets. A characteristic of Egyptian production is the excess glue around the grip, pommel, and crosspiece.

The Egyptian AKM bayonet represents a transition between the AKM Type I and Type II bayonets, mating the Type I scabbard with the Type II bayonet.

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Examples may also be found with a blue-black grip.

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