knife identification

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jmoore69

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I bought a knife at an auction, there is no description or anything on the knife. I have a picture of it and was wondering if anyone could tell me what kind of knife it is. Thanks
 
I see that knife and several varations of it at flea markets around here. It's made in China. Stainless steel blade,appears to be diecast blade holder or mount, and some sort of plastic scales, in a nice display box.

Crusty
 
Picture? We don't need no stinkin' picture!

Description? The details would just cloud the issue!

No!

Let's see if we can identify Mr. jmoore69's new knife with just the information we have: he bought it at an auction. That's all a real knife expert would need to now.
 
What a piece of junk! :barf:

Not a real damascus blade, but etched to resemble a damascus blade? Faux handle? :barf: :barf: :barf:

This clown/seller says that "last time we had these, they were gone in days". And he was able to sleep after ripping these people off? :mad:
 
Actually I was kinda impressed by just how honest that seller was. Most ebay sellers of those crappy knives would say it was real damascus with real bone, but this guy clearly states it is faux.
 
I figured it was a cheap POS... but I didn't put my input in because I was too lazy. (besides, it's not mine anyway)
 
Its nice to see the Chinese are riping off the Russians for a change:barf:
 
Now see, by not knowing your knife history y'all have been ripping on a very legitimate collectors knife. C. Hina was a knife maker back in the early 30's who pioneered using the rare bones of the Faux in making knife handles. What makes this knife even more rare is that Mr. Hina, one New Years day, while extremely hung over, accidentally dropped a batch of blades in a vat of acid. If he hadn't been so far behind in his orders he would have just trashed the blades, but in order to meet his commitments he went ahead and used up the last of his Faux bones with these blades. Now at the time, Mr. Hina payed people approximately $3 to take his knives, so if you factor in inflation over the past 70 + years, that knife is worth over -$100.
 
Don't take our comments wrong, I too have a small collection of Franklin Mint knives and even though most of us wouldn't admit it there's quite a few of us that do. They were either bought before we knew better or were given to us as presents. Chalk it up to a lesson learned and fortunately not a real expensive lesson. Welcome to the forums.
 
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