Pine Knot Identification

[J529A]

I bought this Pine Knot on eBay. Unfortunately, there is a crater right in the middle of the birds head. I know there are a lot of fakes. I was hoping there was enough of the tang stamp left for someon to still be able to make a positive identification. My close up photos are a little grainy just to make things a even more difficult. If anyone can make a determination from the photos if this one is real or not I would be very appreciative.

[Steve Warden]

Just a guess, but the crater a way to ID a second?

[royal0014]

Seems I recall there being a 'Pine Knot' thread around here ....
use the search function .

[peanut740]

I would guess that the "crater" was put there because it is a fake.

[jerryd6818]

It is not genuine.

[1967redrider]

Seems I recall there being a 'Pine Knot' thread around here ....
use the search function .

Here's the link-

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=57279&p=802758#p802758

[btrwtr]

The knife looks like an Imperial brand.

[J529A]

Thanks to everyone for the responses and the old thread link. I did check it out. The quality of the knife is excellent and looks a lot like the Robesons' in my collection. Anyway that crater does make it very suspicious. Thanks again for all the responses and information.