With this example, it seems that the quality standards of whomever is making these is getting much worse. When they folded the strip to make the pommel cap it was very much off center (the right margin is much smaller than the left margin). And once folded that�s it. Because it�s not that easy with an embossed piece of metal to get it exactly back to where it was because of the stresses created in folding.
But faking/counterfeiting is all about profit. So instead of discarding it - they finished it off and assembled it to create one of the �no maker� daggers. I�m also afraid that whomever is making these might have borrowed some pages (besides fake wear/aging) from the �Secrets of Making Third Reich Fakes� book. Which is a topic for another day.
Regards to All, FP
