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Some help please.

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I inherited a box of "stuff", and these were in it. I believe the lower knife is from a cheap Cheese board set but the dagger I can not place.
It appears to have a brass handle and guard and is a full tang with locking nut at it's butt end. Other than that, what you see is what I have.
Neither knife has any markings. I thought the dagger might be a hand made, but it has checkering on the handle that has got to be machine applied.
Maybe a Kit? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance, Frank.
 
The dagger is almost certainly a US made copy of the British Fairbairn-Sykes Commando knife produced during WW2. These were notorious for being below the quality of the original British knife and production was limited to about 20,000 units. I've handled a couple of these and some can be quite loose but it's certainly an interesting piece of militaria.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairbairn–Sykes_fighting_knife
 
The top knife is a fairbairn sykes fighting knife, with some quick searches you'll find it has a rich history and a large group collectors that could help you with dates of manufacture, who manufactured it, etc.

The bottom one is a Japanese santoku, well I don't know too much about kitchen knives but it's the same general shape haha. :o if your clean the rust off, put some mineral/linsees oil on the handles, you'll have a nice kitchen knife there. :)


Edit, looks like I was beaten to the punch. :)
 
Thanks for the info. I know the dagger is at least 30 years old so I will do some online searches and see what I can find out.
 
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