Very nice example, and with the leather frog an'all! Hard to conceive now but "back-in-the-day" a lot of stuff now collectable was seen as having little or no value at all. Bayonets used as fire pokers abounded and post war bring-backs were often seen as mere clutter. I started collecting in the mid 1960's on schoolby pocketmoney. 30 bob for a good kukri, same for an African spear, under a fiver for a rubbish wakizashi. I still have the kukri!
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