Original WWI French Battlefield Excavated Relic Collection - Helmet, Canteen, Barbed Wire, Inert F-1 Grenade Shells & More! U.S. Artwork & Posters The brass handle is definitely

The brass handle is definitely one taken from an earlier WWI 1918 Mark 1 Trench knife

This example was manufactured by Rifle Factory Ishapore in 1967

The stenciling reads as follows:

Uniform posing with the Drum

single-engine fighter aircraft designed by Kurt Tank in the late 1930s and widely used during World War II

Original WWI French Battlefield Excavated Relic Collection - Helmet, Canteen, Barbed Wire, Inert F-1 Grenade Shells & More! U.S. Artwork & Posters The brass handle is definitelyOriginal Ground Dug Items: Only One Lot of Available. This is fantastic! During WWI much of North East France and the surrounding areas became part of "No man's land", where constant trench warfare reduced the environment to a blasted out, desolate area. Repeated charges and changes in the front left huge amounts of material behind, often buried by later trench works, artillery fire, and the like, which means that for many years to come, any type of