Did I get taken for a ride?

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I can only add to the good advice a few others have given.
The Bone colour is correct - I have owned several Red Bobes that have that “ Appaloosa “ pattern such is showing on the Mark side.
The orange red tinge is also good - Luke others have said the knife has been polished.
Often the Stamping is more in the middle of the Bolster but you may have found that someone has peened the pun and polished the Bolster afterwards?
But the knife isn’t fake imo - and compared to others here my opinion doesn’t count that much :oops:
 
I'm willing to bet that 50% of the "mint" Barlows from that time period have seen a little cleaning/polishing. They are great looking knives, and this one is no exception.
I'd be willing to talk price off the forum, Corn Fed!?
 
Campbellclanman said:
I can only add to the good advice a few others have given.
The Bone colour is correct - I have owned several Red Bobes that have that “ Appaloosa “ pattern such is showing on the Mark side.
The orange red tinge is also good - Luke others have said the knife has been polished.
Often the Stamping is more in the middle of the Bolster but you may have found that someone has peened the pun and polished the Bolster afterwards?
But the knife isn’t fake imo - and compared to others here my opinion doesn’t count that much :oops:
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Duncan, I love your opinions, and find them very enlightening!
But you have to type them on a bigger cellphone!!:D
 

Just kidding ....been there many times...just last week comes to mind :)

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. - George Bernard Shaw

A man's mistakes are his portals of discovery. - James Joyce
 
My opinion: 1) Knife hasn't been apart. Nobody would do as crappy a job as Case did originally spinning that backspring pin. Same as most I have ever seen. 2) Knife blade has not been cleaned. Why would someone go to the effort to clean it and leave the little pepper spots around the pull and the rub marks on the back of the main?

The bolster was buffed too much at the factory, but who knows what they were working with. That pin may have been giving them problems. This is something I have seen several times on the same knife. For the price they were charging when it was made, they weren't that worried about a pretty bolster.

Angles on the slab cuts look consistent to what I have seen before.

I think it is original with just a bad buff job at the factory. In order to do that good a job putting a forgery like that together, someone with the skill to do it could have bought three for their time.
 
The seller is a member here and the author of a couple books about Case knives. From my own experience buying (not Case) knives from him in the past, he's not one to call a knife mint if it is buffed. There are lots of sellers who fluff and buff knives and call them mint but he's not one of those guys and I'm inclined to believe that he genuinely thinks it is mint. I'm not really convinced it's been heavily buffed. Based on your photos, I can't make a call about light buffing or polishing. The lighting and resolution can play some tricks in the photos... smudges can also play some tricks. If you have a flat bed photo scanner, not an all in one, then take a couple of scans -- preferably 2 or 3 times the actual size. Charlie (waynorth) has looked at a lot more Case barlows than me.
 
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Also possible the the "prominent collector" may have buffed it or even the owner before him. To your seller it may well have looked mint and I doubt he was trying to deceive anyone and just descibed it as he saw it.
 
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