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http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-NAPANOC ... m231d65f5d

Check out the 2nd picture. The stamping is NOT "CLEAN CRISP & CLEAR". The letters touch each other & they are smudgy looking & some look like they were made from periods. Also note that the choil on the secondary blade, factory choils will not look this way. This knife is a terrible counterfeit---Thx Mark

Wonder what they wrecked to make that.

email smkw, that is their ebay site

you would figure that if anyone knows knives, its them

Oh boy, Its back on ebay for a 2nd time. I wonder if it will bring $500 again?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-NAPANOC ... 53ed54ac60

I just found this post and am surprised that there is so little comments on this knife!! Is it a fake??? I watched the knife the first time and was surprised it's back. I emailed the seller and he said the original buyer never paid but I see no negative feedback for a non payer from the seller, strange!!

Sellers can not leave neg. feedback


Tim

OH yea, I forgot. I am thinking of the old ebay!!! Still would like to hear some other comments on the knife though.

i do not have any comments on the authenticity of the knife as i am not knowledgeable enuf, but i would be really surprised if smkw would risk tarnishing their worldwide reputataion by selling a known fake. but stranger things have happened.

That stamp looks funny to me. The second n sure looks to have dots that would indicate engraving. All the rounded ends on the letters are wrong, should be squared off. Goins says some knives were made 1931-1938 by a man named Cushner using the Naponoch Knife Co. stamp but even if this is one and the stamp was made on a pantagraph machine the ends would still be squared off . EDM machining with the rounded ends and even letter spacing didn't come into use until the 60's. Just my opinion. Slim