Can someone identify this,has no markings

[66cobra]

Can someone identify this knife? Looks like a m7 without the bayonet

Attachments. Is it commercial or military?

Thanks scott

[SKIPH]

66cobra- It's some strange plastic gripped copy of an M3 trench knife.  It could have been made from an M3 whose leather handle rotted off.  It could also be one of the M3s made in Vietnam out of M7 bayonets at one of the Special Forces "A" camps. What does the the top of the pommel look like?  All a guess so far.  SKIP

[66cobra]

There weren't any pictures showing the top. I contacted the auction site and they said there were no markings. 

[SKIPH]

Theoretically,  it would be easy to make one from an M3 with rotted leather handle. Get some old M4 plastic grips, line up the screw holes, drill, and put them on.  SKIP

[66cobra]

That makes sense. Thanks Skip

 

Scott

[sactroop]

I'm with Skip, my memory of the Vietnam conversion of bayonets to M3's has gotten pretty foggy.  The details of the guard and the pommel/tang end might end up helping.

Otherwise it might be hard to determine when and where it got this way.

[SKIPH]

Frank Trzaska did an article that included that the RVN M3s. The article is in the "Military Knives" a Reference Book.  SKIP

[66cobra]

I didn't know about RVN  M3 knives until I just googed it after seeing the last post. Thanks for the info

Scott