We had the San Marcos Marine dagger come up in an unrelated thread so I moved it here. As the Doctor says later here, this is one of the rarest daggers. He has seen only one and I have seen only a couple come up for auction and sale.

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Jim, here is something special
ebay 6608695228
http://cgi.ebay.it/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=66086...TRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

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Great Find Doctor.

If the American Collectors find this it will go in the $ thousands.

Doctor, to your knowledge, is this model being reproduced.

Jim

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We have to consider that these are really rare: I saw a fake dagger for 'assaltatori della regia marina (the navy commandos)' (which was provided with a double edged blade and with the handle with the 4 grips for fingers: this one, on the contrary, is a San Marco dagger) and the big difference was that the handle was made in resin and not in bakelite. I never saw a fake San Marco (but frankly speaking I saw only one original): so I have few indications to recognize as real or not....is that handle made in bakelite?...the strange thing is the leather under the handle: to me, that's not correct, but ....again, the blade of the navy commandos dagger was always etched with 'REGIA MARINA' on oneside and with a maker mark on the other, the SanMarco should not have any mark (like this one, it appears...)another strange particular: the lion head, the 'hair' of the head, I mean, ...they should be no more than 6/7 lines...in this one to me they appear like a disorderedgroup....
well, now I send a mail to the seller: will see his answers!
goodnight (here is 2 am, now!)

Here are the pics the seller emailed me


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hi to all,
someone ask about me for a dagger i posted on ebay last months, it was a poniard reproduction , sell as a reproduction not as an original, all the people that contact me by mail has this answer.
for this san marco knife i absolutely tell that is a reproduction, made from del tin house 10 years ago, i have all the italian knife in original state and all the copies to discuss it, in the pics you can see the logo of the makers DEl tin on the blade!!!!
i attach a photo of one of mine original one knife

Well done and well said Eugenio.
Here is the link
http://www.deltin.it/home.htm

Thank you Eughen for clarifying this dagger. I was afraid people were reproducing these and now you have confirmed this.

Also, I appreciate your posting the copy for us to see.

Doctor, it appears your observations were correct.

Jim

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Jim W,

Hi, Guy´s !

Have a look in here:

http://daggers.infopop.cc/eve/...=981107591#981107591

JIM.

I think Eughen posted a picture of an original dagger for comparison with the DEI tin copy in The Doctor's link.

I stand corrected