Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Military Audio and a shear wire through

and a shear wire through the guide brush

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These are described in the Quartermaster Books as Boots

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Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Military Audio and a shear wire throughOriginal 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