I get an almost allergic reaction when I hear 'vet bring-back' stories being offered as the sole proof for the period existence of an item ...
your argument could be used to justify almost anything...
Yep, same-old-lame-old we hear on every thread where this kinda item is shown.
vintagetime said:
The quality is not something of recent production.
Oh boy, even the oldest TR Fakers-warning catalog that goes back to the 1960`s is warning about these kinda humped up items, in particular the
HJ knife, and the new Fantasy Knives. That was over 50 years ago, so far from Modern. We were all warned about these fantasy engavings over 50 years back, but somehow copllectors only want to believe that etching is a modern discovery and only done on repro stuff. (see pic, Original HJ knife, bogus etching)
Here, the problem with this Internet-collecting-Generation is that they have no idea what the older fakes looked like, and are only aware of the recent fakes and items seen every day on ioffer of Bbay... plenty of the Dealers who are still around today stocked up on this kinda "rare" item, and every now and then throw one to the Monkeys... watch them pro and con it on the forums, and as soon as the majority vote is positive, they start turning up outta the woodwork, Vets that brought them back, and forgot up until today that they had them.
I would say, Turn to History first, and until any proof turns up that they "could be" then they cant be :closedeyes:
Period catalogs and Official writings we have, from the early 1920`s to 1945, so if they had anything to do with the TR, then there will be a link of sorts back to them. Thats going to be worth more than 100 threads of this nature, and in the end, debating on them without any facts, is nothing more than personal assumption.
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