Blade-marked M3 and "interesting" scabbard

[macgunner01]

hello everyone,

 

newbie to the forums, on recommendation from another board. looks pretty cool over here! :smokin:

 

i recently acquired a blade-marked M3 Imperial knife, with an interesting scabbard: it appears to be an M8 fiber body, with the throat from a US M1 scabbard on top of it. the gents over at the other board saw it, and thought that I should post it here for the knife gurus to take a look at.

 

So please: let me know what you think (both of the knife and the scabbard: the pictures are all clickable).

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[MrJitters]

I am also very interested to hear what Greg or Gary have to say about that scabbard.

[hotlead]

I have one of those scabbards, it was with a trimmed down M1 bayonet I got years ago from the sportmans guide, I think from South Korea.

[bayonetman]

Hotlead is correct. It appears to be one of many slight variants of scabbards that the South Koreans used with their cutdown/modified M1 bayonets to the M5 blade size. I have seen at least 3 versions of this type of scabbard.