Paul, I appreciate your bringing this post to my attention, but most of their questions (and then some) were answered in the thread linked to in Mr. Levine's forum (in post #7). In that thread, we explored the history of the pattern, some variants and the reason for it's demise. I also posted scans of Sears and SCC catalogs showing the pattern and a variant. I don't know what else I could add to the thread you linked, except to say that the guy who disassembled and "restored" the knife appears to have done a competent job.
I cannot see the tang marking on his knife since the swing guard almost always covers a portion of it, and he does not show it in any detail anyway. And the bone cover jigging style he used to replace the original covers is hard for me to see. It might be approximately correct for a reconstruction. But that would matter only to a current purist collector, or anyone years from now who might wind up purchasing the knife as an original example.
Michael
