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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 300046, member: 55"]Yes; I was probably not very clear. I have some souvenir knives that my parents got in the middle east around 1960; they are so dull, and made in such a way that they probably could not ever be properly sharpened; thus proving they were made only for souvenir sale.</p><p>But indeed, the opposite is not true.</p><p>My thinking was that if the pictured knife were appallingly dull, even to the point of not being capable of being sharpened, it would likely prove it was never intended to be a usable knife.</p><p>If it were very sharp, then I'd want to think a little more about what that might indicate. But I wouldn't think it was particularly rare, in any case.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 300046, member: 55"]Yes; I was probably not very clear. I have some souvenir knives that my parents got in the middle east around 1960; they are so dull, and made in such a way that they probably could not ever be properly sharpened; thus proving they were made only for souvenir sale. But indeed, the opposite is not true. My thinking was that if the pictured knife were appallingly dull, even to the point of not being capable of being sharpened, it would likely prove it was never intended to be a usable knife. If it were very sharp, then I'd want to think a little more about what that might indicate. But I wouldn't think it was particularly rare, in any case.[/QUOTE]
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