Original Japanese WWII Silk Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun, Kanji, Temple Prayer - 44" x 7" French Machine Guns Overall this is a fantastic

Overall this is a fantastic example of the very popular and collectible World War I era US trench knife

some Imperial German troops were equipped with almost identical swords into the First World War

the largest of which is the Russian Air Force

and the original plating almost fully intact

wing commander cuff ranks

Original Japanese WWII Silk Senninbari 1000 Stitch Belt with Rising Sun, Kanji, Temple Prayer - 44" x 7" French Machine Guns Overall this is a fantasticOriginal Item: One of a kind. A Senninbari ( thousand person stitches) or One thousand stitch is a strip of cloth that measures approximately 15 cm (6 in) high and up to 90120 cm (34 ft) or more in length. Each end of the belt (sash) may or may not have strings, snaps or buttons that allow it to be fastened about the waist. Examples that lack these were often tucked into the waist. Other variations were never worn but may have been folded and placed