Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard - Broad Arrow Marked Spade Grip Assembly with minimal sign of dry

with minimal sign of dry rot

A poor understanding to be sure

but we can still see that the maker was Heinrich Siebert

This helmet is heat-lot stamped 195B

The breakdown for each branch was as follows:

Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard - Broad Arrow Marked Spade Grip Assembly with minimal sign of dryOriginal 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