Original French Pre-WWII Senegalese Tirailleurs Type Entrenching Machete with Leather Scabbard Category_Blunderbuss the division’s state side motto

the division’s state side motto from training days when they seemed to draw more than their fair share of onerous assignments

Caliber: 11

but this also cannot be read

and it is marked 95 on one end

Original French Pre-WWII Senegalese Tirailleurs Type Entrenching Machete with Leather Scabbard Category_Blunderbuss the division’s state side mottoOriginal Item: Only One Available. This is a very nice Pre WWII Era French Coupe short entrenching machete, as used by the Tirailleurs Sngalais (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. They were even reissued as late as the 1960s, and examples saw service during the Indochina Wars. Early versions were maker marked on the blade, but