ITALIAN WWII MODEL 1923 MVSN DAGGER WITHOUT ANY GRIP INSIGNIA.

A good example of an extremely early example of the 1923 MVSN dagger. In the construction of these daggers the blades of the Vertelli bayonets were used, the blade on this example is very good, complete with its undamaged tip. The scabbard has some surface corrosion, the cross guard is marked ‘MVSN AO76’. The wood grip is entirely undamaged, slight shrinkage to the wood on one side leaving a gap between the wood grip and the form of the steel upper grip, complete with its standard belt loop. The dagger is identical to the later examples that have the fascist insignia inset on both sides of the wood grip. The best book on Italian weapons is the Del Pugnale IL Fiero Lampo, which is an encyclopaedia of Italian military and political daggers from 1915 to 2010, on page 63 is an identical example but in a leather scabbard, on page 364 there are line drawings of the same, on page 367 there are a line of identical daggers all with different grips, the far right has a grip without the insignia with its correct steel scabbard as our example is. For the in-depth collector of Italian daggers this has got to be an extremely rare dagger.

Code: 96397