I do some charity work for a school, cut a long story short one of the teachers I am friendly with gave me an SA and a GO and some nice books when their dad went into an old peoples home.

Its a textbook Eickhorn silver GO, everything has been numbered and its sleepy and not in the best of condition. Anyhows the blade on it looked like a brown colour with a load of stains and speckling. I took one look at it and thought it shot and just put it away.

I gave it a bit of a clean and its definately GOLD plated or gilded. I have to say I then took the piece down thinking it must have been messed with but it looks completely original in every way.

I asked the teacher if he could ask his dad about it but unfortunately he is no longer cognative with some kind of dementia. But he did say it had been in the loft as long as he could remember as a child, and his dad did say to him that he brought them back from the war?.

I will post some pictures in the next few days but has anyone ever seen one?