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Permalink Reply by d. freeman on February 17, 2021 at 1:28

Testing this post... Still getting used to your interface.

Permalink Reply by Jim Johnson on February 18, 2021 at 0:22

I'm not familiar with this particular knife, but from all I can see it's just an error piece.

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on February 18, 2021 at 11:19

Honestly, I assume we are talking about the shield, it could be as simple as it fell off and someone re-glued it.  This is an extremely common occurrence with shields and super glue is a wonderful fix

Permalink Reply by d. freeman on February 18, 2021 at 13:30

My first thought, exactly.

If it were a more valuable knife, I might get prickly about being sold a repaired piece.  But I really bought this to carry--so I'm not stressed about it.

How prevalent is the repair and "re-handling/re-scaling" of older knives, and then selling them as original?

FeaturedPermalink Reply by dead_left_knife_guy on February 18, 2021 at 22:02

That looks like a fun little piece to carry.  I'm not a collector of more traditional patterns, for the most part anyway, but I'd say it's actually pretty common for repaired / rehandled knives to be sold as if in the original state.  And really there's not a lot that can be done about it, from what I can tell, since so many repaired knives are sold by someone that didn't make the repair -- in the case of estate sales, for example, or just people who acquired and resold a knife, maybe among a bunch of other items (eBay and flea markets, for example). 

My very off-the-cuff response is that it's probably pretty common, but probably also mostly unintentional - if for no reason other than most people just aren't knife people.

Permalink Reply by d. freeman on February 19, 2021 at 9:41

I figured as much.  And I don't have much of a problem with any of that...  There's even a couple of guys online who do a very nice job of "saving" old, U.S. made knives by expertly re handling them--cleaning them up a bit...  But they are up front about it.

For me, knives are a new thing.  Well, not really "new," per se, but I'm new to buying and selling them.  Mostly, my knives are tools for my shop, and interesting pieces, that I daily carry, for shitz and gigs.

I'm a former musician though, with 35 years experience with guitars of all types.  With guitars, especially, "original and correct," make the guitar more valuable--even if it's non-functional!  And sadly, there is no shortage of scammers, who doctor a well-made counterfeit, to stack some coin...

Caveat emptor, I guess!

Anyway, thanks for the kind assistance!

Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on February 27, 2021 at 12:17

an interesting discussion on counterfeits https://iknifecollector.com/profiles/blog/show?id=3181080%3ABlogPos...