Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts and Mark III)

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The other chappe is a blank shield and would often be used for the officer to add a monogram

An article in his local newspaper 65 years after the end of WWI Reads:

The barrel is 34" in length and measures 49 1/2" overall

Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Gahendra Martini Rifles & Parts and Mark III)Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very good example of a late "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with an alloy handle and original scabbard. As brass was a "strategic material," only the early examples of the third pattern have brass handles, with later war produced models having blacked alloy handles. The handle dates production to late 1944 early 1945. The knives varied somewhat in size, and this example measures