I have received it now and it is sharp and the blade is laminated

[no damascus pattern though]some 1 has cleaned the blade bright through some process ....im going to try some lemon juice etch to see if it shows up anything. As for the 2 sets of three dots ...of interest is that the second set [the uneven one]the uneven dot was made by a diffrent punch than the rest so it seems that it was made uneven on purpose for some reason.