Hello Jan,

Thanks you for checking the magnetism of the hilt on your knife.

In my opinion, the hilt should be steel based (strongly magnetic) as this is a mottoed (earlier) knife.
Looking at your pictures, the cross grain apperas unusual on your knife and the mark is not the one we normally see for this maker. If you compare to the one sold by Johnson, you will see that the position on the blade is much higher.
I have to conclude that I feel not comfortable with this knife being a period original.
But it would be interesting to have a hands on inspection on this one.

Best regards,

Herman

You never have enough HJ-knifes!