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Originally Posted by stekemest
Doesn't look that bad to me. Seems used, wood and leather are well patinated, the writing style of the numbers looks legit. Could also be 19th c. historicism, hard to tell, but the overall impression is quite good.
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OK thanks , that sounds encouraging , I have no reason to think is is a fake other than my usual pessimism . I have had this lying in my 'heap' for about 30 years un looked at. In fact , to my shame, and idiocy, I had thought it some kind of Khyber knife ... until a member on the Ethnographic page suggested that it was Scottish. Now of course I realise that the decoration and styling is obviously Scottish .