I finally got around to looking at the one for sale at Manion�s. If Manion�s says: �Authenticity Unknown� that should be a red flag the size of an aircraft carrier!!
One of things I remember were some not much better quality fitted cases. Sometimes inlaid with medals, coins, badges, whatever. Some examples had cases and some did not. Probably most got �lost� because they were so obviously fake.
Also, did anybody notice that the handle and scabbard are brass?? A severely restricted war material from the 1930�s being used in a �1943� dagger ........... from a steel maker!!
Guys can spend their money however they want to. But I put them in the same general category as the fake 98K bayonets, just scratch built and not as common. And I would not be at all surprised if they came from the same postwar geographical area like all the fake brass handled �SS� folding knives.
Nuff said, FP
