Full Member content possibly?
Possibly MWF
Maybe Garry can help me out on this problem ?
Full Member content possibly?
You mean the background pattern ? it`s there, you just cant see it because the enamel is not translucent. So the only abnormality with opaque membership badges, is that the red enamel is not transparent. Another abnormality that applies to many opaque badges, is that they were made using lesser quality materials like eisen (magnetic) and messing-plated eisen (still magnetic on both sides even though the obverse is theoretically messing - but the messing sheet is so thin). Otherwise in most cases, they are stamped under the identical obverse and reverse dies.and then do something completely different by leaving out the scaled base of the diamond!
I like it as well Mac. There are fakes of these solid red's, but I believe you will find that the diamond in that knife, when looked at through a loupe, will show some tiny, dark dotted specs, a little like spots of pepper in the red sections. That's the main thing I look for in a solid red diamond of the same colour as yours.
I believe the fake solids are easy to spot, but genuine ones I've seen all have this characteristic.
Regards
Russ
You cant teach an old dog new tricks
Sorry, but common sense tells us that this is BS. Why not try working out a definite way to authenticate the HJ diamond, instead of this rabble? It`s EASY!!!!!If it has movement its good.
youll never win mac they treat hermann and everything he says as gospel if he said blue diamond where real they would all rush out and buy them,
i love the way he avoids answering any questions by making stupid remarks, unfortunately the sheep over there believe everything he says so if he says bad then they all think bad, and he thinks hes helping the collecting community
i visit now for over 10 years all the major European fairs: most in Belgium, France and Germany. I am talking about hundreds of fairs. One would be surprised how many HJ knifes are still surfacing here in Europe. At every fair I look at all of the offered HJ knifes: that makes thousands of HJ knifes in total.
When I started, the following HJ knife features where considered suspicious and most collectors would not buy knifes having them:
- plastic hangers
- erzats (pressed paper) hangers
- etched maker marks
- ink stamped maker marks
- aluminium rivets
- eaglehead shaped pommels
- ... many more
Were considered...? Or Where, but in another context?......
so if i go to lots of fairs and look at lots of stuff i become an expertthe following HJ knife features where considered suspicious
Hi Scott, I'll have to dig through some old files, on an old pc, but if I find anything useful, I'll let you know.
I have pics somewhere of diamonds with a flat base, before enamel was added, but I don't recall if they were membership badges, or knife diamonds.
I haven't been in touch with Russ for a few years now, and I don't remember if we discussed these at all.
Regards
Russ