Check photo # 7. Fork, SILCO.

Beautiful! Hope to find one of these one day!   Where did you find this one?

His rank is listed as "Sergeant" in all Morning Reports, Separation Record, etc.  I am assuming 3x stripes?  Or can I not be so sure?   Thank you for the link, I can even order multiple pairs!

. Funny what you find while looking for something else . . . . . . .    Looking through my Jeep spares today for something else I re-discovered this take-off  ' F ' marked Ford hand-brake handle.  Somedays it's fun searching through old spares containers, found several other pieces I will be making use of, and memorised other pieces that might be needed in the future.        Norman D. Landing, Forum Normandy Correspondent,   June 17  2024.    ...

Warpath, nice display!  Some interesting observations about these knives.  The SF Crest on the guard is not always on the handle side of the knife.  There must have been some inconsistencies in manufacturing, because many guards are opposite on these knives.  Some have the "Japan Sword" on the handle side of the knife, and some have the SF Crest on the handle side.  At first I thought someone might have disassembled the knife and put the guard back on opposite to how it was originally assembled.  But after looking at many examples, there are just too many one way or the other.  Thanks for sharing the Indonesia example Widukind1971.  

One would think having a rotor blade directly under you would make it less than popular.

Indeed, post war reproduction, 70's judging after the blade grey powder (parkerized) : black plastic in between cross guard and leather washers, as well on the pommel, most probably full pin on the pommel. Also, the ends of the cross guard seem to be flatten (or straighten), normally they were bent down.

Hello, guys.   I know that you have come with military versions of Western Cutlery CO, I also have the Western G46-8 in mint conditions, but I would like to share with you a commercial small Western knife (not mine), which accordingly with the ricasso stamp is it a later version (after 1977). What's interesting is that on the sheath is written '' 1940 Artur N K'', but I do believe that it was done on purpose to be sold as WW2 period.   What do you think about that?