I just got a 1901 dated Bayonet with a scabbard at a price I could not pass up. The bayonet is in good shape and perfectly normal in every respect except it has the number 362254 stamped deeply on the "US" side of the cross-guard. I am quite certain this was not US Army practice from what I have read. Since this is a possible serial number for a late 1898 Krag, could this perhaps reflect numbering practice for a National Guard organization or maybe a military school? I have bought and seen a fair number of Krag bayonets, but I have not previously seen one marked like this?