Original British WWII Third Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard marked Sheffield England Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout All original parts including a

All original parts including a VERY RARE original wood stock in very good to excellent condition

The exterior fittings are nickel plated but much of that has been worn away

The rifle features an nice un-sanded stock with the edges still proud over the lock plate

using captured A-37 aircraft flown by VPAF pilots and RVNAF defectors led by Nguyen Thanh Trung who had bombed the Presidential Palace in Saigon

The Belt is still soft and has most of the black leather finish present

Original British WWII Third Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard marked Sheffield England Allow PayPal & Amazon Checkout All original parts including aOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of an early production "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with a blacked brass handle and scabbard. As brass was a "strategic material," only the early examples of the third pattern have brass handles, with later war produced models having alloy handles. The handle dates production to late 1943 early 1944. This example comes with a custom leather scabbard, with a belt