Original British WWII “Non Import Marked” 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Original Display Machine Guns Horizon blue is a color

Horizon blue is a color name which is well remembered because it was used for the blue-gray uniforms of French metropolitan troops from 1915 through 1921

Arld of Nuremberg

with a 10 3/4 inch blade

so the maker can not be read

and briefly kept it as a family pet

Original British WWII “Non Import Marked” 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Original Display Machine Guns Horizon blue is a colorOriginal 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 post war 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