Knife identity?

Finnberg said:
A William Rogers stamped dagger is around £70 but an unstamped copy is probably around £20 - £30, I am willing to be corrected on this estimate.
I have found a picture of the one in my collection.
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I did say it was rough.

Thanks for the pic! Yeah that one does look similar to mine, is the one you have a copy or original?
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I don't really know, there are no markings on it where I would expect there to be so I would say that it is a copy but as you can see from its condition the markings, if there were any, could have been ground off.
 
used to carry a sheath knife when shooting when me and my mates were 15 in the early seventies no stabbing no fights used for whitling or for cutting toasting forks out of branches how times have changed you could not carry one now and im 66 even in the field i would not carry one
 
C220w205 said:
I don't really know, there are no markings on it where I would expect there to be so I would say that it is a copy but as you can see from its condition the markings, if there were any, could have been ground off.
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Hmm thats not what Google is saying, a few makers of this style were making these daggers during the 2nd world war, they were completely devoid of makers marks to speed up production.
Other reasons given was they did not want their marks on weapons that were hated by the Germans, it was a known fact that any prisoners captured that had these weapons on their person did not fair well on being captured....
 
Finnberg said:
Hmm thats not what Google is saying, a few makers of this style were making these daggers during the 2nd world war, they were completely devoid of makers marks to speed up production.
Other reasons given was they did not want their marks on weapons that were hated by the Germans, it was a known fact that any prisoners captured that had these weapons on their person did not fair well on being captured....
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I would have thought that if they were military issue they would have the Broad Arrow mark to denote it as such, with or without a makers mark.

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I have just had a look online and apparently there were a lot of WWII issue daggers did not have any markings whatsoever which makes identification as a genuine wartime issue very difficult and need expert scrutiny to confirm, so perhaps we do both have genuine WWII issue dagger's.

I know the one I have feels really solid in the hand and not a slung together bit of tourist tat.
 
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I also have another couple of Fairbairn-Sykes type daggers, one was a commissioned piece that a very good friend and maker did for me and the other one was given to me by a family member who was having a clear out.

Below right is the dagger that was commissioned by me, on the left is the dagger given to me, this one has no markings that are visible. The cross guard was quite rusted and pitted and after cleaning there are no obvious markings but the dagger does feel solid in the hand and everything is tight.
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C220w205 said:
I also have another couple of Fairbairn-Sykes type daggers, one was a commissioned piece that a very good friend and maker did for me and the other one was given to me by a family member who was having a clear out.

Below right is the dagger that was commissioned by me, on the left is the dagger given to me, this one has no markings that are visible. The cross guard was quite rusted and pitted and after cleaning there are no obvious markings but the dagger does feel solid in the hand and everything is tight.
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Nice Knives! as you say its a minefield, there are literally 100s of 1000s 0f variants out there so trying to determine their rarity or whether they are genuine is nigh on impossible... I will list the one I for sale based on these posts, so any buyer will have a fair opinion on what they are getting.... :-)
 
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