Original Japanese WWII Naval Officers Dirk with Brass Mounted Leather Scabbard Beretta - Pick for opening stuck

- Pick for opening stuck pockets

The bayonet is complete with its flat steel scabbard with frog stud and tear drop end

it is now a museum ship at the USS Midway Museum

The objective at Utah was to secure a beachhead on the Cotentin Peninsula

On the 29th May 1945

Original Japanese WWII Naval Officers Dirk with Brass Mounted Leather Scabbard Beretta - Pick for opening stuckOriginal Item: Only One Item Available. This is a very nice example of an Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) Officers Dress Parade Dirk, complete with its brass mounted leather scabbard. As with Naval Dirks in Europe, they were given to officers when they were first commissioned, and were not intended to be any type of functional weapon. They began to be issued starting in the 1880s, and their use continued until the end of WWII. This example is textbook,