Knife Certificates

I think a certificate should include the makers name and address. This will help in the future when people want to research the origins of the knife.

It should also include a full description of the knife along with a record of the knife's serial number, if it has one.

The date of manufacture should be included, and so should the name of the person that is the new owner. Another thing that would be nice to include would be a photograph of the knife being held by the maker. You can't get better provenance than that.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
Another thing that would be nice to include would be a photograph of the knife being held by the maker. You can't get better provenance than that.
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I have not seen this done before - though I have seen a photo of the knife alone incorporated into the certificate. I think it's a pretty cool idea.

Roger
 
Kevin Jones said:
So I guess governments, financial institutions, education diplomas, birth certificates, engineered drawings have just been wasting time and money requiring these official documents to be stamped with an embossed seals for the last 75 years or so when they can be so easily counterfeited. :confused:
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I think the purpose of the seal is not to prevent counterfeiting as much as it is used as a formality in the traditions of formal corporate protocol to affix a corporate signature on a document, in addition to a bunch of officers of the corp. signing it

If the institutions you named above have used these seals for the purpose of deterring fraud, then yes, they have wasted their time.

I can get you a diploma from any Ivy League school in three weeks.....where do you think I got mine? :D
 
OK, you and Roger have convinced me. :thumbup:

Now we just have to convince everyone else in the world to STOP using those silly worthless embossed stamps on documents. :cool:

Gee, think about how much $$$$ we can save considering ALL the property deeds, vehicle titles, birth certificates, passports and such that have those stamps. ;) :D :D :D
 
Kevin Jones said:
OK, you and Roger have convinced me. :thumbup:

Now we just have to convince everyone else in the world to STOP using those silly worthless embossed stamps on documents. :cool:

Gee, think about how much $$$$ we can save considering ALL the property deeds, vehicle titles, birth certificates, passports and such that have those stamps. ;) :D :D :D
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Like I said, I gotta few in a drawer somewhere at work, I can give you a deal on a couple of them if you'd like. :D
 
A COA can actually help a crook sell a fake knife. The crook would use a real looking COA to distract the mark enough to not look hard enough at the knife. Its a lot easier to fake a real lookng COA then spending time and money trying to fake an expensive looking knife by a famous maker.

I'm sure its very easy to fake a photo of a maker holding a knife with a photo editing package. Basically, if the buyer needs a COA to autheticate a knife, he hasn't really done his homework and a ready victim to this type of scam. A COA is nice to have but hardly a reliable way to deter conmen.
 
Karl,
i like the idea of a letter (typed or handwritten) explaining the materials used and heat treating process. Anything particular about performance expectations or unique to this knife/ recognition of details. Then dated and signed.

Im not a big fan of "forms"- having something more personal is better (i think), except if for insurance purposes.
David
 
Daniel Winkler and Karen do a very nice little thank you card with all the spects. Very classy touch, but that should be no surprise coming from them.
 
IMO it should be a simple certificate of authenticity, including the
knifemaker's name, size ,materials used and date finished.

This becomes a document that goes with the art piece, a custom knife
in this case, when and where it changes hands, for years to come.

All the best,
David Darom
 
I did a very successful up-grade this morning that seems to make sense!
Since I am printing the certificates individually as I make the knife, with my program, I can print a picture of the actual knife right on the certificate and the envelope!
This should satisfy those who want complete individualization of the certificates.
It looks VERY nice and professional.
Look in the very first post on this thread, and I removed the upper left Andersen Forge logo and replace it with a picture of the knife! And, add a small pic of the knife to the upper left corner of the envelope.
 
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