FS Knife - Help me. mystery sheath?

[viking_raid]

Hi guys,

I just bought a nice but worn FS knife. I paid $45 Canadian dollars for it which is about $38 US dollars.

'England' stamped on the hilt. Its sheath is not the typical sheath but looks WW2 in its age and fits like a glove. The strap on the sheath keeps the hilt from moving perfectly. As well the leather looks like WW2 era leather that I have seen on other sheaths. Anyway, does anyone know anything about this sheath? Maybe it was made for Canada or the US para or Commandos? Devil's Brigade? (I wish). There are no markings that I can see on the sheath, except the button clasp has "h K*T*" stamped in a circluar pattern on it.

Here is a picture of the knife. Please let me know what you all think about the sheath.

[lnijherald]

The standard FS sheath is about the only piece of WW2 kit that is imo poorly designed. Many soldiers have custom altered them by cutting the frog and using a web frog instead for instance. According to Alan Locken a "hunting knife" style sheath was issued at the end of the the war and into the post-war years. Some commando units preferred a similar sheath without a snap fastener as this didn't make a noise.
Cheers, Luc

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi, given that the knife has the "England" stamp, that would make it a post war import into the USA. But it is a good WW2 third pattern knife. The scabbard bears a resemblence to the US M6 scabbard and I think has been based upon it. The price was great!

Cheers, Ade.