Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Japanese Holsters This causes the plug to

This causes the plug to pop out of the hole with some velocity

The scabbard has seen use

While these belts were successful during their period of issue

20 gram Plastic BBs at 300+ fps (feet per second)

During the period from 1866 to 1869

Original British WWII Import Marked 3rd Pattern Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife with Scabbard Japanese Holsters This causes the plug toOriginal 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