Now that this has been resolved and the money is back in my pocket, here are the pics of this gem. The pics were not too bad on the auction, but once I had this thing in hand I knew it had issues. The main thing was the throat and grip fit....then I started looking more closely at everything and once I got my second opinion from my expert, it's fate was sealed. Please learn from these pics, I sure did.

I took the above pics when I received the dagger....sorry for the ironing board back-drop...Now that I look at these pics again, I'm actually embarrassed I fell for this thing....I think I just got SS dagger fever....this could have ended badly...

Wooow... indeed.
Very bad piece...
Good for you that had a full refund.
Everyone makes mistakes. I made mistakes myself in the past. But it were valuable mistakes that I added in my learningprocess.