Apparently Robert E. Lee's Knife on eBay

[raydog9379]

Here you go folks... step right up and get it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIVIL-WAR-E...007?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item4181f9441f

Seriously, this looks like someone took a sharpie and wrote Robert E. Lee on it. People selling junk like this is what really irks me. Clearly it's a lame attempt at trying to take an old pocket knife and increase it's value.

 

[John Davison]

Here you go folks... step right up and get it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIVIL-WAR-E...007?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item4181f9441f

Seriously, this looks like someone took a sharpie and wrote Robert E. Lee on it. People selling junk like this is what really irks me. Clearly it's a lame attempt at trying to take an old pocket knife and increase it's value.

Remember what P. T. Barnum said!

 

[Patrick H]

Here you go folks... step right up and get it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIVIL-WAR-E...007?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item4181f9441f

Seriously, this looks like someone took a sharpie and wrote Robert E. Lee on it. People selling junk like this is what really irks me. Clearly it's a lame attempt at trying to take an old pocket knife and increase it's value.

I couldn't even tell you if the knife is of the correct era to make this attribution possible. But I can tell you this: When I was about six or seven years old, I had a lot of stuff with "Davy Crockett" printed on it.

 

[AndyHall]

When I was a kid I had a pocketknife once owned by Union General Barlow. I know because his name was stamped right on it.

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[Cumpston1862]

Whoops...better go pull my bid.

 

[Bryan_C]

Here you go folks... step right up and get it:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/CIVIL-WAR-E...007?pt=Collectible_Knives&hash=item4181f9441f

Seriously, this looks like someone took a sharpie and wrote Robert E. Lee on it. People selling junk like this is what really irks me. Clearly it's a lame attempt at trying to take an old pocket knife and increase it's value.

When he said he couldn't draw his sword against his native state, this isn't what I had in mind...

 

[Cumpston1862]

After participating in this thread I checked my email and I had recieved an email from Shiloh Relics. I had the opportunity to own Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens inkwell! Used by him in the Confederate Congress apparently. It made me laugh after this whole Robert E. Lee knife thing. Of course I trust Rafael Eledge and Shiloh Relics a lot more than I do some joker on Ebay.

http://shilohrelics.com/cgi-bin/Display_Item.asp?108260

 

[28thNewYork]

Among other hobbies I collect baseball memorabilia, specializing in one player whose career in professional baseball spanned from the 1930's to the '70s. I recently sent an e-mail to an eBay seller about a single-signed ball he was selling that he attributed to this same player. Since the player had suffered a physically debilitating stroke before the date when the seller stated the ball was signed, the player could not have himself signed the ball. He had the good sense to remove the listing. I personally believe this seller was provided the wrong information when he acquired the item, and was not merely trying to pass it off to someone else.

But....while some sellers are unwitting...others are crooks...some buyers are dumb....others too trusting...if it seems too good to be true, it is. --Thoughts from 16 years buying (and sometimes selling) on eBay

 

[JWheeler331]

Well, it may not be THE Robert E. Lee but there were so many R.E.L.'s out there. I personally have two on my tree neither being the great General.

 

[Mike Serpa]

Whoops...better go pull my bid.

Please do so. Better chance I will win it!

 

[1950lemans]

The knife was definitely not Lee's but it could be an early commemorate knife made in Sheffield, England. There was a Dickinson company there in the late 19th c. called E.M. Dickinson Ltd., Cutlery Manufacturers. There is an archive catalog of all their products that was published in 1956 but you need to go to the Sheffield library to get it.

 

[JerseyBart]

Seems legit.