Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard British Replica VION Paris

VION Paris

The grouping includes

The holster is marked on the inside of the holster top flap with FAR4 1911 in ink

at the age of 48

Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard British Replica VION ParisOriginal 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