UBB.threads Forums Edged Weapons Miscellaneous Dagger Forum Strange youth knife, not German

I�m afraid that I�m going to have to go with Ron on this one. The markings were not metal stampings one after another, but were individually acid etched one at a time. And the fairly pliable wax masks themselves were destroyed in the process with a new one being used for each blade. And workers could easily make errors from one example to the next.

The red arrow placed on the example from the book on the right side of the �n� shows were this is true.

My point being that while etching is an important factor to look at. It�s not the only one, and I see no clear evidence at this point that the one currently for sale is a fake. FP