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This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 5:28 pm
by Boji
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 6:45 pm
by olderdogs1
Definitely not legit. Looks like someone took a USA 65-69 Frame and restamped the blades, nothing right about it at all.
Tom
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:54 pm
by dlr110
Am I wrong or is one tang stamp from 1905-1914 and the other from 1914-1920?
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 10:22 pm
by olderdogs1
dlr110 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 12, 2022 9:54 pm
Am I wrong or is one tang stamp from 1905-1914 and the other from 1914-1920?
Yes, that’s correct. W R Case & Sons never had rights to the Tested XX trademark until 1915 when they purchased it from Case Bros. But, as I said before, nothing about this knife is correct.
Tom
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 10:34 pm
by herbva
For $22,295, they could have at least put a period correct shield on that frankenknife.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 10:36 pm
by jerryd6818
Didn't even notice that. I was blinded by the price.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 10:36 pm
by OLDE CUTLER
They have proven themselves to be liars with the statement "unopened", while also stating very minor spots on two of the blades and showing pictures of the knife open. How would one know that it had spots if it was unopened?????? And the price, how would any sane person arrive at that??? Also note that the seller has 0% positive feedback???
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sat Feb 12, 2022 11:57 pm
by KLJ77
Looks like a Dremel tool was used to put the "Bradford.Pa" marking on the tang. He deserves a finger cut after typing that price in.
However, he has ended the listing.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:17 am
by hardman
I am thinking that shield came from a Case Classic.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 1:56 am
by zzyzzogeton
It has now been pulled due to "an error in listing". I guess someone must have questioned the seller about his/her verbage.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 4:17 am
by dlr110
I did send him an eBay message at 4:00 PM and told him what he was doing.
I pretty sure he must have received several more than just mine.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sun Feb 13, 2022 12:31 pm
by jerryd6818
One from me too, saying he must have the decimal point in the wrong place.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 12:39 pm
by btrwtr
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 1:37 pm
by danno50
The auction pictures
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2022 1:38 pm
by danno50
The rest of them
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 3:30 pm
by winst
I had a back and forth conversation with this seller and he informed me that he did not build the knife but simply bought it from a dealer that stated that it was made from parts. My question to him was.....from where did he say he got these new parts [blades]? The man seemed to be unaware that the knife was a well constructed "fake". I kinda of feel sorry for these people that get duped by these "fake" dealers dealing in "FAKE" knives.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:08 pm
by btrwtr
So the knife was sold to him and represented to him as being "made from parts".
Somehow I don't see any such representation in his description of the knife.
"Case XX 5488 Congress Pre-1920. Rare.
Never carried, never sharpened.
Some very minor spots on two of the blades.
Outstanding condition for 100+ yr old unit."
Sounds like pure bullcorn to me.
Re: This can't be legit
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:10 pm
by stockman
The 88’s have been faked for many years. Some are really hard to spot. Harold