Vintage WWII Senegalese Machete for Sale

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Vintage WWII Senegalese Machete For Sale

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Vintage WWII Senegalese Machete:
$500.00

Original French WWII Era Senegalese Tirailleurs Type Entrenching Machete with Leather Scabbard
Item Description:

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice WWII Era FrenchCoupeentrenching machete, as used by the Tirailleurs Sénégalais (Senegalese Colonial Troops) for the first half of the 20th century. These were first introduced in 1898, and continued to be produced and used up through WWII.

The machete has a romantic \"One thousand and one Nights\" style blade 14 1/4\", with an overall length 20 1/2\".
I purchased this machete when I was about 9 years old (I\'m 73 now) at the Army-Navy surplus store in my hometown. I made a wall mount out of a drawer front and it hung on my wall for decades. The item is in as close to mint condition as I can imagine. The blade is unmolested, I never even attempted to sharpen it. It has a nice edge on it now from the original manufacturer. The wooden handle is in good condition with no cracks or splitting at all.The leather scabbard is in the same shape as when I bought it except, I branded my initials, GY, in the back under the leather belt loop which has FRANCE stamped on it.This an example of an unmolested survivor.Note: the machete the Senegal soldier is holding, and the JAWS actor Robert Shaw is holding is not the machete for sale, just to illustrate its history.