Original U.S. 1950 Sands of Iwo Jima Vintage Film Poster French Edged Weapons looks like it might have

looks like it might have carried cigarettes but it is too thin and we were told it is for "visiting cards" much used during Victorian times through World War One but now a thing of the past

Every bayonet is unique

with some slight bubbling and patination

Stanley was a friend of Belknap

The firing mechanism consists of a firing pin

Original U.S. 1950 Sands of Iwo Jima Vintage Film Poster French Edged Weapons looks like it might haveOriginal Item: Only One Available. Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic, 1950) poster (22" X 28"). John Wayne received his first Oscar nomination for his work in this film, then was honored even further. At Grauman's Chinese Theater, he put his footprints, not in the regular cement as many Hollywood greats had done, but in black sand shipped in from Iwo Jima and mixed with the cement. Wayne's foot and fist prints remain in "the sands of Iwo Jima" on Hollywood