The pommel & crossguard are reminiscent of a fire official's dagger produced by WKC but the "T" shaped blade rules this out, The dagger looks Axis affiliated, it's similar to a Bulgarian Police dagger that I saw several years ago. Are there any blade or tang markings?
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Billy,thanks very much for your information.No any marks on the blade or tang.The only visible marking is number 4 on the scabbard ball. The dagger has been in Bulgaria.
This is a very curious sidearm - very much like a Fire Dept, but the blade looks to be a conversion from the French Model 1874 Gras bayonet.
Many thousands - perhaps 100s of thousands, of these bayonets were captured in WWI. The Germans converted lots of them into "Ersatz Mauser bayonets"; and the British Webley company converted many into Webley pistol bayonets.
I suspect that your item is a sidearm professionally converted out of this WWI stock - but for which nation, or service designation, I have no real idea. It looks like it culd be Fire Brigade, but that is just a guess.
