Thread: Real Fili?

I picked this up at an antique shop in central Texas last week. Wondering if it is real or Fili scales on another blade. Tang only says "made in Spain" & "13-b" on the monkey tail. 5/8 blade, gold wash is an eagle with an "E PLURIBUS UNUM" banner held in the beak & 8 stars. I've never seen this before. Any thoughts?

I think this is a fake. Scales and steel, there are not teue filarmonica.

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I was 90% sure it wasn't a real Fili, but I haven't seen everything....yet.

Still it got my curiosity up. Will see what it shaves like after I hone it up.

Those tang stamps look pritty identical to what they.used to stamp exports...scales seem legit too...I wouldnt be surprised if it shaved like a Fili too...could have been a special order...I have seem many strange things regarding Filarmonica and everytime I think I have seen them all something like this pops up)

The scales I think are genuine. It was the blade that I was courious about. I have never seen anything on a Filarmonica I know is gen like this and the single, English, tang stamp didn't feel correct either.

I think it could be genuine a very late export model, the quality is hit and miss on these last models.

The pivot pin appears to be the very modern style "nail head" type. My guess is that it was unpinned at some recent point in time. Can't see what the wedge pin is though. Very well may be a late production model but I really do not know much about Fillis.

Bob