Original British WWII Custom 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife With Curly Maple Wood Handle and Leather Scabbard Replica Non-Firing Machine Guns GQGA and the Fortified Region

GQGA and the Fortified Region of Verdun

about 27 inches wide

which holds in place the original early model leather M-1916 liner band

This really is a fabulous Gunner's Horn

This example still has most of the lacquer intact

Original British WWII Custom 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife With Curly Maple Wood Handle and Leather Scabbard Replica Non-Firing Machine Guns GQGA and the Fortified RegionOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good example of an early "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with a custom curly maple wood turned handle and original scabbard which was trimmed down. 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. It is difficult to date this example but from the brass pommel nut we