Final production Run Certificate question for the expert.

First, that knife looks older and was probably not part of the 2004 sell-off.

Regarding those certificates, they are interesting but not diagnostic. The factory or a wholesaler (I forget the story) gave those away with every knife purchased during the factory inventory closeout. There's nothing to tie most certificates to individual knives. If you bought a crate full of knives, they'd toss in a few certificates.

Other certificates were signed, marked with serial numbers, and reserved for special or semi-unique items like the factory collection. But even many of these 'special' certificates were distributed as blanks, left for the individual dealers to fill out. Many dealers didn't bother.
 
I have always kept away from any item for sale, with one of those certificates.
A seller on eBay sent me a book of 100 of those certificates, they are just another way to deceive buyers..

I also note: the price tag on the box has been remove.
This alone indicates that knife has been for sale, in a shop at some time.::confused::confused:.. Ken
 
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My thoughts? The paper is too slick to make good toilet paper. Pads of these were given to wholesale buyers of box lots of knives scrounged from the inventory liquidation by the co-buyers, SMKW/Pipes and Blue Ridge knives. There were tractor trailer loads of finished knives and a bunch of WIP. The certificates mean nothing and never have. "final production run" included everything not nailed down and some things which were.
 
The assets were put up at public auction and every cutlery and other manufacturing interest had a chance to bid for the lots. Pipes, Taylor et al were and are businessmen in the trade and submitted winning bids. As I recall much of the machinery went to other makers of knives. Like Benchmade. I can hardly hold the merchants liable for what the ebay sellers do. Or for what stories buyers buy.
 
Mike,
You are right.
However,that bunch has done a lot of shady stuff with tang stamps,packaging,nomenclature,etc. to disguise the fact
that their new knives are made in China.
If a newbie wants to buy a good Schrade today,how do they avoid getting ripped off?
 
The majority of new knife buyers and users don't know or care about the quality and origin differences. We are, as you know, a small subset of people who do know and care. So it is what it is.
 
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