A Lot Of Three First And Second War Miniature Medal Bars With Four Medals And Awards Each Auction Archive Footnote: The Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife Footnote: The Fairbairn Sykes Fighting Knife is a double edged fighting knife resembling a dagger or poignard with a foil grip developed by William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric Anthony Sykes in Shanghai based on concepts which the two men initiated before the Second World War while serving on the Shanghai Municipal Police in China the last of the Numbered Treaties This is a lot of three First and Second War miniature medal bars with four awards medals each period ribbons with functional horizontal pinbacks