Indians For Guns

From the June 2006 edition of Gun Mart magazine:
"Wallis & Wallis - Militaria Auction
Tuesday 21st March 2006 by Roy Butler."
"The very earliest first issue of the Fairburn-Sykes Fighting Knife came with a three-inch cross-piece. It quickly became obvious that this was too wide and most examples were returned to the Wilkinson factory for modification. They were re-issued with a shorter crosspiece, which became standard in all patterns from then on. This example of the 1st Pattern FS Fighting Knife was bright and in very good condition. Against strong competition it sold in the room for an astonishing ?975."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You should have told me to sit down first...

Thanks for that little tit-bit of FS lore.

Mack The Knife

Grumpy,

Good to see you here, my friend. Hope your trip went well.

Just out of curiosity - I have heard of an Applegate Fairbairn-Sykes knives with a reference to Col Rex Applegate - is there a Fairbairn-Sykes knife that is different from the APplegate FAirbairn Sykes or is it just a designation thing?

You know I'm not a knifr buff at all myself - just curious.

Thanks and hope to see you here often,

Mehul

Hi Mehul,

The Fairbairn Sykes and the Applegate Fairbairn are two different knives though both happen to be daggers.

Fairbairn Sykes: http://gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/fs/fs_knife.htm

http://www.nzknives.co.nz/home.htm (modern version made in NZ)

Applegate Fairbairn: http://209.35.185.42/ShopSite/Boker_kni ... nives.html

Col. Rex Applegate was a student of Sykes if I remember correctly.

Mack The Knife

Thanks Mack The Knife,

Applegate's book on handgun use is a textbook even now with the US Marines and I think that for sniping they sue the Hesketh Pearson book from the UK. It really is fascinating how these people developed their fighting techniques before WW-1 and perfected them to an extent where we have little that is betetr today.

Mehul