As bad as it gets!

[Mumbleypeg]

This one is an abysmal fake, about as bad as I’ve seen. https://www.ebay.com/itm/144913181492?h ... R_Ltzfe7YQ
Good example to learn from though. The seller’s description is ironically telling: “ Presented for your consideration is this Vintage Case Tested XX 1920-1940 Stag Copperhead trapper Jumbo Jack Pocket Knife. Beautiful piece. So many subtleties that I am am having a hard time locating another example exactly just like this one to compare it to. Rare, hard to find.”.

So how many incorrect things do you see?

Ken

[herbva]

The blade tangs have obviously been cold stamped and the original tang stamps have been removed, which is why part of the tang line on the primary blade is gone. The condition of the blades do not match the purported age of the knife and, it could just be the pictures, but they look like maybe stainless steel. I am not familiar with any pattern of Case knife with this frame shape, but it definitely does not have "copperhead" bolsters. The scales look to me like jigged bone, not stag. The lettering on the "bomb" shield looks screwy to me. On the bomb shields I have, the top and bottom of each letter touches the oval.

[herbva]

And, I just looked at the auction and noticed that the "Case" stamp on the bomb shield is cockeyed, but it does look like the closed "C" "Case" stamp that should be on an oval shield.

[Mumbleypeg]

Bingo! I don’t think the secondary blade was stamped on the original it came from, so it wasn’t necessary to shave off a stamp on it. Whoever did it just had to cold stamp it.

It’s not even a very well done cold stamp!

From looking at other items listed by the seller (toys, signs, etc) they’re apparently not a knife dealer so probably has no idea the knife is a fake. But based on the BIN asking price they’re sure proud of it!

Ken

[winst]

I informed the seller early today that his knife was a fake. Got no response from seller....

[winst]

Another red flag: the bomb shell show no sign of pins..glued I would suspect.

[robpa]

well it is a jack.

[btrwtr]

Yes Ken, this is pretty bad. It seems that on many of these horrible multiblade knives the counterfeiters will fake stamp all the blades. Very early tested knives will often have more than one blade stamped but this is nowhere close to being a very early tested knife. The stamping of multiple blades on these fakes works for people that just believe what they read but don't read the knife.

[1967redrider]

What would you call the scales on this knife? Grilled Natural bone? Reverse Skunk bone? He's practically giving this gem away.

[btrwtr]

If I look close it does look kinda like late 70's early 80's Case jigging on some very yellow looking bone. Someone has really uglied it up by putting some black crud lines on it.

[Dan In MI]

The cold stamps and evidence of grinding were obvious even to me, a guy who's far from being an expert. Hope nobody pays money for this thing.