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Darn things are tricky. A friend has a good reference book to determan type etc. but it is hard to spot some of the repops. I only have one (post war) as the prices on early ones are all over the place with no price guides that I am aware of to help establish values.
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02-25-2020 07:20 PM
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Here is Roy's re-assessment of my knife that I asked him about earlier and lost it in a computer crash I received his reply yesterday not 24 hours after contacting him thats how helpful this chap is a real diamond.
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"Happy to hear from you again and also help.
The knife is a late-war (1943/4) Third Pattern F-S with correct scabbard.
The England
stamp indicated it was never issued but sold as surplus into the US market post war and sold commercially."
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Roy did reply and determined the knife is fake.
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Picture 1, post 1, the "19" and "40" appear out of alignment (from the pic) which is not a good sign for something that was supposed to be made in a UK factory. I would have expected these numbers to be evenly spaced and in line with each other if the number was punched in a UK factory. This is because the normal way of stamping/punching a line of letters or numbers, in a factory, is to hold them in a tool holder which keeps the punches in-line. These ones look hand punched, i.e. out of alignment.
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Originally Posted by
Flying10uk
Picture 1, post 1, the "19" and "40" appear out of alignment (from the pic) which is not a good sign
See the post...#13, determined to be repro.
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The 1940 is actually perfectly spaced as is the broad arrow above it. It's just the wrong date for something that wasn't made until 1943. It's a well made piece. Just isn't real.
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How sad to see so much effort go into trying to decieve people 
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Originally Posted by
Gil Boyd
trying to decieve
One of the big gunshows I used to attend yearly here saw a group of Chinese nationals roaming it buying lots of mainly Nazi regalia. The buyer spoke no English but had a decent translator. Then there was his money guy, he just carried the cash. They came to a circle of us and worked their way around us buying $15,000 CDN of stuff from about eight of us. So much stuff that my boss used my handcart to carry it all out to their car... We were just one group, they worked the whole show for the two day event... We figure it was all going back to mainland China for reproduction.
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Jim,
Highly likely as most of the Gallantry medal copies come from there, and also all things German stamped with a Swastika or Cross they produce. Shows that there is a lot of money in "rare" fakerage!!!
'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA
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Originally Posted by
Gil Boyd
Matter of fact Gil...I just answered a request for a Edelweiss hat pin on a local gun sale forum and was surprised that he couldn't find one for sale somewhere. I searched and ALL I could find was Chinese copies. I had one since the '70's so...it's going out today. All of them were coming from China, sad. Only $10CDN for a copy and my real one went for $50CDN...he was elated.
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