Original British WWII Early 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard 81mm Mortar As the counterattacks intensified the

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Original British WWII Early 3rd Pattern Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard 81mm Mortar As the counterattacks intensified theOriginal 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