Everyone, thank you immensely for your sleuthing with the given information. After a final email of notice that I had posted his information, I have a rather surprising update. I have received return correspondence from eafisher via email. It has been explained/admitted that my knife has been lost off of his workbench, and he has been profusely apologetic. It has been promised that the material I had purchased for scales will be returned, and that my knife will be replaced when possible. I am interested to see if this will pan out, and will be waiting until it does before possibly altering any negative impressions. I will keep you all updated with how this goes.
Great news! Now let's see what he says about my situation! Now that's a lot of explaining to do for sure!