Original Fairbairn Sykes or more modern copy?

[mbec]

I'm counting on you all with your expertise. I found this at an estate sale over the weekend. No scabbard, no broad arrow, very rusty and the tip is broken but for 5 dollars I could not leave it. It is marked William Rodgers Sheffield England. It has a brass pommel nut and the handle looks like some sort of cast alloy. If original is it a 3rd pattern? No other markings on it.

 

Thanks Mark

[WW2az44]

I think it’s a real 3rd pattern. I don’t see anything that makes it stand out as fake. I feel like there are a number of variations of this knife.

[Ivydiv]

Looks like the tip was broke off. Shame. Dave

[skir]

Real and a bargain at $5.00. Good Score

[mbec]

Thanks guys. I cleaned it up as well as I could so now I just need to find a scabbard for it. I'm sure there's someone who makes them online.

Mark

[Danny J]

The only thing i found to do with the whole "sheffield " thing was this...

It always made me be wary of buying in the past, but who knows... Anyway any information is food for thought.

 

 

[US Army 86]

I just finished posted something similar about my FS dagger. See my post when you click on my username.
If my FS is a real WWII era one or a post WWII. I’ll post my photos here too for additional information. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

[lmrobil]

Second one here is wartime produced and marked England when it was imported into the United States after the war as part of the land lease reparations.  I believe the first one was produced post war although could still be an original military item.  I am no expert and there are many good sources of information on these online.

 

Lance