JR, Please don�t take offense, but am I really off topic? I thought this was supposed to be about the silver chains and signatures. But instead we are going into the discussion of just one single dagger, without Frederick .J. Stephens who I think is the one you wanted to have in the loop not me.

As for the screws, tomorrow I�ll pull out an untouched early Eickhorn SA to take a look to be sure. But I'm not talking about �domes�, but the gap between the screw head base and the body of the upper mount.

As for the �Gruner� dagger I would love to discuss it. Just as soon as I see some really, really, good close ups of the H�hnlein signature. And especially some of the interior. Fred

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