North Vietnamese Army Issue Entrenching Tool Shovel E-Tool with Rope Hole

These have become very hard to find considering that nearly every NVA regular carried one down the HCM Trail. This one had a hole drilled through long ago do that a rope or cord could pass through it in order to be lashed down to the rucksack. The handle has dried but is still firmly in place. One side has K carved into the handle; the other has B carved into the handle.