Marble's Gravity Knife?

PointyThings

PointyThings

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Not my photo and I haven't handled this knife in person, but I can't find any info online about it (and it's not for sale on the "e" site). Only part of the stamping I can see is "Marble's".

The bone is amazing, but I can't recall vintage US-made gravity knives that look like this.

Has anyone seen one of these before? Also, the blade looks like it should be reversed, so the edge is pointing away from the release lever.

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Pre-war maybe? Frankenknife perhaps? I  think Gladstone, MI Marbles made a lockback or clasp knife with that lock and release. I wasn't aware they were/are a gravity knife tho.
I agree someone (a "idiot" or "moron" most likely) had it apart and put the blade on upside down. Sine the spine wasn't flush with the liners, I'd have to guess the cutting edge and point would be well proud when folded, making it unusable open or closed.
Izzit possible the ... "brainless thing" ... that took it apart then put it together oh so wrong, also made it into a quasi fixed blade, using the release lever as the "guard"?
 
The seller describes it as sliding knife, so I assume it's out the front in some way, not a folder. The German gravity knives I've had always had a weight below the tang of the blade. You'd think the weight would prevent the blade from being removed from the knife, unless the weight has broken off the tang of this knife. I need to get more details on it.
 
Just looking at the handle and the blade orientation, the blade is backwards. Something very fishy about this knife.
 
Also, the newness of the blade doesn't seem to match the aged handle.
 
The pits on the tang make me think the blade was cleaned. As for the blade being backwards, I'm thinking that either the weight was knocked off the end of the tang and an unknowing person inserted the blade incorrectly. Or, like afishhunter afishhunter said, it's a frankenknife and the blade was originally from a fixed blade knife with the tang cut down and inserted into the body of a gravity knife.
 
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