Original Italian WWII Outdoor Portrait of MVSN Fascist WWI Veteran with Medals Giving Roman Salute - Signed Ingersoll - 30 x 39½” Original Display Machine Guns and were purchased by GIs

and were purchased by GIs returning home as a memento of their military service in the specific theatre of operation

They appear to retain all original components and we were not able to find any names on them

There are no real records of where the knife came from

this logo was one of many very similar but not identical trademark logos used during the 1933-1935 period

This example measures 36” in overall length with a massive 29” blade with single blood gutter down each side

Original Italian WWII Outdoor Portrait of MVSN Fascist WWI Veteran with Medals Giving Roman Salute - Signed Ingersoll - 30 x 39½” Original Display Machine Guns and were purchased by GIsOriginal Item. One of a Kind. The Milizia Volontaria per la Sicurezza NSDAPonale (MVSN, "Voluntary Militia for National Security"), commonly called the Blackshirts (Italian: camicie nere, CCNN) or squadristi, was originally the paramilitary wing of the National Fascist Party and, after 1923, an all volunteer militia of the Kingdom of Italy. Its members were distinguished by their black uniforms (modelled on those of the Arditi, Italy's elite troops of