I believe this to be a fake - Crandall Cutlery

[knifeaholic]

Fake Crandall jack ended recently:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/s/202537975600?nordt=true

Edited to add: I have tried to add the photos to this one and the last one I posted, but the photos fail to load.

[#goldpan]

I dont know anything about Crandall so I cant say anything about it with any authority but to me the blades and the tang stamp dont match the condition of the handles. Re-bladed? Perhaps. $295 bucks for a knife that raises a lot of questions......

[jlw257]

Here’s a picture

[edge213]

I'm not an eBay bidder, but shouldn't it have told the buyer something was wrong when after 10 days no one else bid on it?

[peanut740]

Blades don't have the look of a 110 year old knife.Master is the only 1 stamped.I have had a couple Crandalls and both had very dark brown worm groved bone.

[Miller Bro's]

The seller's description and all the pictures for posterity:

If you read our feedback on past sales, you will find out many of our buyers say the item they purchased from us was better than described, so keep that in mind when reading my honest descriptions. This is a VERY RARE, VINTAGE, CRANDALL CUTLERY CO. circa 1905-1912, 2 BLADE JACKKNIFE PATTERN, POCKET KNIFE MADE IN BRADFORD PA. USA. It is closed 3 5/8".The MASTER BLADES BLADE TANG IS stamped CRANDALL CUTLERY CO. BRADFORD ON THE FRONT TANG.The knife blades are snug and snap good and both have long nail pulls. The gorgeous handles are very different looking like a cross between real jigged bone and real stag, (not synthedic or plastic) have no chips and look to have a some real thin pin stress hairlines from age, a scratch but nothing loose or serious. (see pics for detail) , and brass pins and liners. This knife has a story, it was bought about 35 years ago by me off a old knife collector that was selling his lifetime collection at the famous Washington Courthouse gun and knife show in Ohio. After I bought it and another knife from him I took them to a friend of mine that was set up there selling, Clarence Risner who was at the time the head of the NATIONAL KNIFE COLLECTORS association and owner of GERMAN EYE BRAND KNIVES to get his opinion as far as originallity and he said it looks good all the way to him and was a nice find. Its been in my collection since. Mr. Crandall married one of Cases daughters then merged in to the Case Co. and dropped the Crandall name according to the knife history books. The blades are very full, looks like the original edge on both with some very fine steel wool lines from cleaning (not me) but could easily be buffed out. A important piece of USA knife history. THANKS

[Greenman]

There’s a number of holes in the seller’s backstory. For one, he states that Clarence Risner was present at the Washington Courthouse Ohio flea market and was also head of the NKCA at the time of the knife’s purchase thirty-five years ago (1984). While Clarence would likely have been an exhibitor at Washington Courthouse in 1984, he was most definitely not the head of the NKCA at that time. If my memory serves correctly, Clarence was NKCA president from 2000 to 2007. As always, buy the knife, not the story…the story is generally bollocks.

[btrwtr]

The seller's description and all the pictures for posterity:

A important piece of USA knife history. THANKS

An important piece of counterfeit history. Someone paid a lot of money for the story.

Handles that look 100 years old and blades that look new combined with a stamp on only one blade that is known to be used on Crandall counterfeits.