Original U.S. WWII Named Custom Knuckle Duster Skull Fighting Knife Brown Bess Musket Parts Sailing aboard the SS Louis

Sailing aboard the SS Louis Pasteur from New York on 16 July

MFR'S PART NO 1818 1-A

being superseded by the newer B-15 Flight Jacket specification in late 1944

The bottom fitting is dented in

Original U.S. WWII Named Custom Knuckle Duster Skull Fighting Knife Brown Bess Musket Parts Sailing aboard the SS LouisOriginal Item: One of a kind. This appears to have started life as a 1918 trench knife which was reworked to be a custom knuckle duster knife using a composite grip with has an impressed name JOHN LUCAS on one side. The center of the grip bears a carved bone skull. The entire grip and steel knuckle duster was painted back where as the blade was deeply blued. A custom leather sheath was produced and also painted or stained back at some point. Overall