Original British WWII 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Later Scabbard - Marked Sheffield England Untouched Antique Guns This name plate was for

This name plate was for a Marine who worked at the Camp Sukiran Post Office sometime during the Vietnam War

This configuration with the shorter magazine was very popular for hunting

but are still fully legible:

though it does not have any maker or size marks

Original British WWII 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Later Scabbard - Marked Sheffield England Untouched Antique Guns This name plate was forOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very good example of a late "Third Pattern" British Fairbairn Sykes commando dagger, with a copper plated 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 copper plated and blacked alloy handles. Unlike many we see, this example is actually maker marked on the underside of the