Help Id this knife (George Wostenholm)

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Well, I suppose that depends on where it was made, doesn't it? Makers in Pakistan and India have produced lots of stuff like this just because they can.........
Why a modest pattern? Why not? Rare and expensive knives are more likely to be questioned, but inexpensive and fairly common? Nope, slap what seems to be a well known name on it and somebody will buy it. Whoever made this was counting on brand recognition to carry a sale....

That goes back to the volume question. It's a factory made stamp and a decent one, so why wouldn't it be used more on more fakes? Wosternholm gives us 73 hits, and after looking through them, they are simply misreads by the sellers or typos by people writing down things. That knife is probably 40-60 years old or so, so if they were using that stamp to make fakes, there should be some findable mentions of them probably other than this one, but there isn't. Fake an entire stamp to make maybe an extra $10-20, or perhaps a tiny bit more?

If you're going to do 1 off or small batch fakes, it makes way more sense to do it on other things than a modest hunter.


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It all boils down to which is more plausible, mistake or counterfeit? There are more things favoring it being correct or a simple mistake in the stamp than it being a counterfeit.

I just though of another famous stamp mistake that went with another big name company - The extra 1 Case Cheetahs from the late 60's. So if it could happen to Case and Marble's, stamping mistakes can happen elsewhere.