I recently received this French trench knife. The brass handle is from an M1886 Lebel bayonet, but I have no idea where the blade came from. It didn't have a scabbard and unfortunately some idiot tried to sharpen it with a grinder, but other than that it is pretty nice knife and most likely dates from just after WW2, and could have been used in both Indo-China and Algeria. I'm currently constructing a scabbard from a P37 Basic Pouch I had laying around and I might try to sand the grinder marks away. The ruler is in cm.
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