Original French WWI M1916 Type 2 Fighting Knife by Gonon 41 with Scabbard - Le Vengeur de 1870 Category_MG 42 Accessories Its role in Italy cost

Its role in Italy cost the Fifth Army dearly

From the early 1980s until 2006

but with the thick barrel walls used in construction

It became obsolete in 1918 with the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

There is still the "ghost" of a cartouche on the bottom of the right grip scale

Original French WWI M1916 Type 2 Fighting Knife by Gonon 41 with Scabbard - Le Vengeur de 1870 Category_MG 42 Accessories Its role in Italy costOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice example of the French WWI M1916 type 2 Fighting Knife, pattern 41 made by GONON, as marked on the blade ricasso. It comes complete with it's original painted steel scabbard. These are often called Le Vengeur de 1870 (The Avenger of 1870), in reference to the lost war against the Prussian Army in 1870. After the defeat of France in 1940 the Germans captured large quantities M1916's and these were