Australian WWII Machete (smachete)

[Aragorn243]

These are based on the standard British machete but have a bakelight handle. This one is dated 44 but the manufacture is not stamped deep enough to be legible. The first 4 is just enough to tell that's what it is. Appears to be unissued but no scabbard.

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[browningautorifle]

Your matchete is in this thread, marking and name. Die Casters Australian Machete

[Aragorn243]

I don't think so. No trace of a D. Looks like a possible M which makes it MP for Marsden Products Pty Ltd of Sydney. Marsden Products were a Division of Lysaght Works Ltd. Lysaght may have manufactured the machetes for both Marsden and Die Casters at their Port Kembla factory.

This from: Australian Military Knives - Machetes'

[CINDERS]

I have a DC- 45 Machete with a brass throated scabbard, the DC is very hard to read due to the condition of the blade very dark, it certainly looks like a war time sharpening effort it's as rough as guts with lots of chips at the front tip area of the blade.


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They are two totally different items sorta reminds me of the WWI U.S Corpsman blade

[Aragorn243]

Yeah, you're right on the name. This is essentially the same machete the UK used except for the bakelight grips. Australia made them with wood grips also. The seller is calling them that.