Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard - Broad Arrow Marked Receiver Top Cover The chape fitting has a

The chape fitting has a denting and a split in the bottom ball along the seam

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She was decommissioned in 1947 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet

designed to accept the E-M"s safety was reamed to remove the original configuration

Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard - Broad Arrow Marked Receiver Top Cover The chape fitting has aOriginal 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