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A lot of turn of the century mines had purpose built saws, and one of a kind blades for said saws. Which means the marks tend to be unique to stones coming from that mine. If they haven't been lapped away over the years, the scratches left behind are kind of like a mechanical fingerprint.
I'm not so sure saw marks mean much. Saws were not custom made. You bought them according to the type of rock you were sawing or drilling through and the depth and how heavy duty you wanted them. The actual blades were common items. Individual blades were changed very often.
definitely return, unless you got it cheap and you like it for the price, anyway.
If it shows up on ebay again, you can click on the "report item" button and state your complaint to ebay. They'll (Ebay) probably remove it. I've done that before when things are favorably listed for someone in a way that's really just fraudulent, or where a seller has been informed that something is misleading and then refuses to address it.