Help with a civilian auth

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Nocternum

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I know I could just be 100% safe and buy it from an authorised shop but where I live, there is no such thing. I could order it online but I’d be hit by an enormous import tax bill and customs bill too. I’d actually given up on getting one of these unless I one day travelled to a country where I could buy it from an actual shop.

Somehow, there is a guy selling one of these on a local ebay sort of website. It’s not ebay since we don’t have that here but it’s the closest thing.

Here are some pictures. What do you think? Look authentic to you?
 
Nocternum said:
I know I could just be 100% safe and buy it from an authorised shop but where I live, there is no such thing. I could order it online but I’d be hit by an enormous import tax bill and customs bill too. I’d actually given up on getting one of these unless I one day travelled to a country where I could buy it from an actual shop.

Somehow, there is a guy selling one of these on a local ebay sort of website. It’s not ebay since we don’t have that here but it’s the closest thing.

Here are some pictures. What do you think? Look authentic to you?
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Kinda hard to tell ...
 
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1) Those are super fuzzy pictures.
2) Lots of fake Civilians from back in the day.
3) No guarantee that what's in the pictures is what you get sent.
 
It does look right. Single liner, correct font, notch on lock, etc. And it looks slightly used, too (clip), which is a good sign. Also the case looks OK (Chinese cases have visibly cheaper leather). But you can never be 100% sure - so many different Civilian fakes out there. Maybe check if the seller also has the tag that came with the original (saying it's not a general purpose knife) ?
 
Thanks for the comments guys. Tbh the seller seems to be a collector. Apparently he did a trade at a knife show 5/6 years ago and got the Civ as part of the trade.
Anyway it was on a local bidding site. There’s not much interest nor selling activity for such things where I live so only one other person bid and I got it for about usd 80 all in. Let’s see. I’ll prob receive it end next week because we use second class slow postage unless it’s important.
 
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