Another "Original" (Fake) Randall...

That is a good catch - The description tips me off - and I think you're right due to that. The seller at least appears to have plausible deniability with his wording. (a red flag for me). The picture however, seems to be a randall, unless I'm missing a key obvious fake sign?

Here is the picture, (I'll take it down if required, but I'm posting it to see signs of 'reproduction'/fakeness?)
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Blade shape (edge side, below the ricasso) is about the same "depth" (in the curve) as all of the other fakes I've seen. Also, handle shape and width of leather units is wrong (again, akin to the identified fakes). Even with a kit knife, this double hilt guard is wrong, and the plastic spacers do not quite match up to the guard. And, there is a thumb-serration forward of the upper guard (I suspect the maker - banging away on his anvil in Pakistan or India - suspected that thumb-serration to be "just for looks"). The guard is not soldered into place; everything about this "Randall" tells me it's a counterfeit. There are other "gut instinct" - in the blade itself - indicators that my senses tell me the knife is wrong. If I was able to close my eyes and pick the knife up - against my Randalls and all the other Randalls I've handled at gun shows, and in Solvang, California and in private collections - that would help further. And, where's the "original" sheath? Almost all of the fakes do not come with one, and the fake sheaths really are laughable. The Randall stamp does not "feel" right...

Amazing to see someone was "duped" into bidding over $200 US...
I will not bid on a fake Randall.
 
thanks for the info...
if you look at the bid history, there were more than a few bidders that got duped into bidding this one up
 
Nope, his real Randall knives are real, and sound...just this "lame duck" being "excused away"...
 
I would bid on the others, but I have two more coming in the mail next week, each built circa 1980 in pristine condition & low sheath wear.
Up our way, the cougars run & hide when they hear a Randall coming through the bush...
 
Final disposition on this knife was, the seller - who was not previously aware of the knife being a counterfeit - cancelled the sale, and "ate" the loss. It is a heck of a note, that in the "musical chairs" world of buying and selling knives, someone gets stung with a fake when the music stops...however, if we support counterfeit knife manufacture from Pakistan (Islam) and just "let it go," then we support actions against our own troops overseas: a line has to drawn somewhere.
 
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