A Very Scarce, Fascist Italian 1938 Manlicher-Carcano WW2 Issue Fighting Knife, Used by Italian Fascist Forces and the German Wehrmacht

With original frog mount, and a lot of original blueing. In pretty much sleeper condition. A nice and unusual bayonet-fighting knife used by the Italian Fascists and Germany in WW2, and very rarely seen in the UK these days. .Used by soldiers of the German Heer and SS of the Third Reich on the imported guns that were sent from Italy. It was initially designed as a folding bayonet but the action proved to have a weakness so it was adapted and strengthened by making it non-folding knife which in fact made it more efficient and popular as a close combat knife. As it's design was also so very neat, as compared to the K98 Mauser bayonet, with a sound blade but around the size of a British FS dagger, it proved to be an excellent close combat knife, and it was popular as such by the both of the German-Italian axis allies. Good piece, with original serial number, and most collectable.

Code: 15098