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This isn't the early pattern dirk BUT it is the early variant of the WW2 dagger with ray skin covered scabbard. I believe they're all machine made blades. I've seen a few extremely rare examples that had wide, tanto style blades. The whole dagger & scabbard were custom built (proportions changed) to accept old blade.