Original British WWII Early Import-Marked 3rd Pattern Broad Arrow Marked Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Custom-Made Captured German K98 Bayonet Scabbard Category_Receiver and oxidation on the safety

and oxidation on the safety pins

The Italian army group had been routed by the British Commonwealth Western Desert Force in Operation Compass (9 December 1940 – 9 February 1941)

The middle of the lid and the middle of the bowl are largely stamped with 3C45

for those wounded once or twice by hostile action (including air raids)

This is a fantastic custom-done cigarette case perfect for any Soviet collection

Original British WWII Early Import-Marked 3rd Pattern Broad Arrow Marked Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Custom-Made Captured German K98 Bayonet Scabbard Category_Receiver and oxidation on the safetyOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good example of an early "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with an alloy handle and original custom made scabbard made from a captured German K98 bayonet 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 knives varied somewhat in size, and this example