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Joe, in your last post, you asked:
"Not unlike the first of anything, say a collectible car. These are often rebuilt. Does being rebuilt change the fact it the first? No, perhaps not in original condition, but still the first. Check the VIN."
If Bo had taken a 1942 Zacharias fighter, taken it apart, reconfigured it into a 1943 brass thong clip fighter because it was a better design, would you still view it as being earlier than another Zack?
Do you recollect any comments by Bo stating that he rebuilt his first knife? I would think that as Bo had a keen mind, that when the 1938 photo was shown to him and he identified it, I would think that he would have recollected the rebuilding of it and shared that story. Had that happened, we wouldn't be having this conversation. At this point it's only a theory, a good one, but a theory nonetheless. Remember our collector addage, buy the knife, not the story.
Sam
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