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Originally Posted by BoBlade
To clarify: From the pics, it seems that the blade was "shop cleaned" at some point in time in it's life, as the finished surfaces on knives from the 60's (or even a little later) did not have "styrations". Rather, just very fine linear polishing lines. Many times it's very hard to arrive at a definitive conclusion from just photos. Even with the knife in hand it is sometimes difficult.
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That is a possibility, but the shop does not recondition old scabbards, and the one which belongs to this particular 14 is just as clean as the knife is itself.