Original British WWII Early 3rd Pattern Broad Arrow Marked Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Offered totally uncleaned with rust

Offered totally uncleaned with rust

As with most examples we see

There are some rust areas near the muzzle of the barrel

part of the 5th Indian Infantry Division and served with them in the Burma Campaign

1939 (Heft 17)

Original British WWII Early 3rd Pattern Broad Arrow Marked Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Category_Snider Rifles & Bayonets Offered totally uncleaned with rustOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good example of an early "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with a blacked brass 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 1943 early 1944. The knives varied somewhat in size, and this example