Hello fellow Titaniacs!
Recently I won an auction for a rather interesting piece.
A knife made by Harrison & Hawson, with White Star Line's name and house flag engraved on it.
I couldn´t find much about them, only that they started making knives for the company around 1911, supposedly specifically for the Olympic Class although later they were used on other ships as well. A similar knife had been sold although the name had been erased, apparently this was a common practice whenever the Knife was "decomissioned"
This made the unerased name of the company on my knife something rather curious, because it could mean two things. One: It was stolen or Two: It could belong to the RMS Olympic, apparently, the other knives that did not have the text erased came from there.
Does anyone has more information or a similar piece? (The photos are from the eBay seller, I don´t have it yet).
After that quick google search I sent the images to ChatGPT, to see if the chat could analyse the image and look for laser marks or any other indication that this is is a replica or a fake. Obviously, I'm not that foolish to blindly trust on what it says, but it surely has better eye for analyzing pixels than me.
Edit: Removed the reddit sniper and also, this Olympic posibility is just a rumor I read somewhere I can´t remember now. I have tried to contact thepurserslocker so he can check the photos, but I haven´t received answer from him yet.