Trouble is there is only a story and nothing to prove it one way or another, I have several MD2 marked blades all converted by Turkeyinto 1935's I could just as easily say they were Gallipoli pick ups. You shoudl always buy the blade and not the story! Especially when the story costs 3000!
Now I have a K98that was picked up in Berchess garden from A German general who said it was Hitlers ......................