Jim,
Thanks for the encouraging words. This will be my first SS. I went into this with eyes wide open, I knew the condition and am OK with it for the price (around $2000). Nice examples of chained SS daggers I have seen are going for 3 to 5 times that (asking price anyway). For the condition I may have paid a bit too much but it is the cheapest one I have seen out there. I just was a little worried about the lack of a maker's mark but I am now seeing that that is appropriate for the M36 daggers. It will never sit in a museum, but I think I'm going to like it for what it is.

Bob