Fairbairn-Sykes original ?

[Reibert]

Hi mates !

Heres´s a Fairbairn-Sykes commando dagger, (3rd pattern ?), I do not know, if it´s an legit one ? ...

overall-lenght: 29,7 cm
blade-lenght: 17,4 cm

hilt: non magnetic

Thx. in advance,

R.

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[Reibert]

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Fairbairn Sykes Commando Knife

Look here. The link above is in Dutch, but good to compare.
Your dagger is a very nice piece. Do you still have the scabbard?

K.

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2nd model F&S. *A and crossed keys.

K.

[Reibert]

Thx. !
Unfortunately the scabbard is missing !


Further opinions ? ...

There´re a lot of fakes of the F&S outthere and I want to make sure that my F&S is an legit item.
Thx. in advance !

[Gouldy]

im thinking of buying this one, do you guys think it is original ?? looks very different to the one posted above

WW2 F.S. Fighting item. | eBay

[rvr]

It's a post WW2 3th pattern, not 2nd pattern.

Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting knife and commando knife post war production

Regards

[Reibert]

It's a post WW2 3th pattern, not 2nd pattern.

Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting knife and commando knife post war production

Regards

Military issued, or a fake ? ...

[rvr]

Not military issued, just a post war non military FS, still made today (i think) by this company John Nohill & son/J. Adams Ltd. If you look for an issued FS get a 3th pattern from ww2 or in the link i gave their is info about issued post ww2 FS's.

[Reibert]

Not military issued, just a post war non military FS, still made today (i think) by this company John Nohill & son/J. Adams Ltd. ...

Nohill is correct, but, what´s about the military acceptance marks, ("broad arrow" and WD for war department) ?

Are they faked ?

[Gouldy]

just found this one in an auctioneers, what do you think it would be worth ?? very tempted,

sorry but its the only pics they have , the German Cloth Eagle also looks nice