Please post a photo of one of these repros for comparison. Because as far as I see, it looks like the supposed originals posted in this thread. 

It seems the mystery has been solved by members over on the great war forum. The scabbard had the leather replaced by the "S.E.Norris & Co. (S.E.N.) and inspected in 1940. The "W" means wax was applied (beginning in 1923). Thanks for he help.  

OH SWEEET!!! NIce looking pin and fuze body... wow it looks just like the one I have, maybe there is hope it's real pin. I can tell you sadly the metal fuze detonator had to be cut out and removed... I have it but it's destroyed,  it needed to be compliant to legal rules and that had to be destroyed to inert it. It was a live fuze with the spoon and pin. There is trace of powder residue. It had been completely destroyed inerted,  that's why I wish the paint was a little better on it. I'm guessing process to inert caused it but again it had to be done. All of my stuff is legal, the one you show had been fired off. Why or how he got it off the production line to do this my guess is that fuze spoon was badly bent when I got it, so I'm told it was rejected at the factory after it was live then was inerted. I looked with microscope and you can see some residue stain. I asked and back then or maybe even now I do not think its legal to have a fuze with a intact detonator even if it's empty. It must be removed or fired off like yours is. All it was a metal extended out part of a inner soft metal lining. I believe when the grenade fuze ignites that melts and seals the fuze with the blast to make it more efficient? Idk... its pretty soft metal. I can post it sometime, that destroyed inner lining part is still in storage but if it helps give providence I'll mame sure to keep it around.

More detailed pics of key elements would provide help to provide a better assessment.

Isn't it strange that this style M1916 holster doesn't show up very much but there are way more commercial copies of the M1916 holsters using the post and hole design?

Just bought this one today. Haven't been able to find this variant.  Neat Japanese made still with the sticker!

WOW! that's a top shelf group! terrible that he died in training maneuvers. Survived the whole war and went out that way. He practically had his whole life ahead of him, he was only 29. what a shame. RIP

I asked my Grandpa why he enlisted in the US Navy in 1940. During the depression he did a two year deal with the CCC. That ended in 1940. He told me he enlisted in the Navy because they offered 3 hot's and a cot. Little did he know that a year later he would find himself at Pearl Harbor. I then asked him why he stayed for a full 20. He told me that compared to the farm life he grew up doing the Navy was the easiest work he had ever done.      Different times have different realities.      As for me, My grandpa nudged me towards the Navy after high school in 80. I did well on paper but my uncorrected eyesight settled the matter. I was gonna do a West pack with my buddy. They took him and he never spoke to me after that. O Well!

i would sure like to buy a sholder knot...any condition  thank you  i am not a dealer..