I too am loathed to put too many items on the forum due to the fact some members would rather criticise than be objective with there comments.when asked what do I collect ,I like to say that I specialise in collecting daggers,not that I am an expert on the subject.maybe if we all adopted that attitude and was happy to give constructive levels of OPINION and considered the collectors position a bit more we would all benefit by seeing more items.As for this dagger and topic I feel I do not have enough experience to give too may constructive comments but as far as I can see the guy is trying to be as transparent as possible so let's give him a bit of a break.my only other comment is he has offered hands on and we all know this is the only true test.From there on we trust our gut instinct with the knowledge we are armed with.
Dippy