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Post by kydave on Aug 31, 2008 20:37:00 GMT -5
Seems knife collecting is on the rise, have gotten into it myself! Sales are booming on E-bay! I like the Ka Bars, don't make the folding ones anymore. Bet there are a lot of Case collectors out there!
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Post by Rebel KGC on Sept 1, 2008 19:24:03 GMT -5
;D HA! I have Native American (Indian) "Bowie" knives... VARIOUS "clans"... Eagle, Wolf, Buffalo, and Bear; had my mother-in-law worried, when I had 'em hanging on the wall... going up the steps to the "study". She didn't come back much, to "visit".
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Post by kydave on Sept 2, 2008 14:55:16 GMT -5
Good thread would be "101 ways to run off your mother in law". Submit your ideas here!
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Post by kydave on Sept 2, 2008 16:11:03 GMT -5
Giving Beale a much needed vacation! ;D Wow! They got some great lookin Ka Bars on Ebay, gotta go bid!
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Post by beale on Sept 2, 2008 18:47:09 GMT -5
kydave,
My brother in law was an MP in Vietnam during the war. He got interested in making knives after the war while living in Maryland. He made at least 30or 40 wonderful looking knives from wood from all over the world. Sadly he passed away last October soon be a year. His brother I think still has that collection and I believe he makes some of his own. My favorite was a knife about ten or twelve inches long, looked like a Dundee Knife. He ran the blade through a silver dollar. The silver dollar was a stop for your hand. Those knives were beautiful. I would bet he had maybe 400 hours in some of them.
I just thought I would mention him because he was the man that got me interested in the Beale Treasure. He sent me a copy of Argosy Magazine printed in the early to mid-sixties. Knowing I loved to work with numbers and liked trying to solve mysteries, when I read that story, I believe it was written by Pauline Innis before she and her husband wrote the Beale Treasure story. But anyway after reading and working on the ciphers, I was hooked for life. I told his family that at the funeral. I also told them I was going to check out the site I had and recover the Beale Treasure and I have not done it yet. Dog gone it.
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Post by kydave on Sept 2, 2008 22:28:30 GMT -5
Something about knife collecting that you have to see the beauty and workmanship that gets you hooked, if you don't see that, just a knife to some people. It's very easy to get carried away on how many you buy, especially when you think it's a good deal. Like collecting anything else i guess. I just consider it an investment that i can make a little or get my money back anytime i want because the prices seem to be staying up. You wouldn't believe how many knives some people are selling each year, small business doin 6 figures!
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Post by kydave on Sept 3, 2008 7:45:31 GMT -5
Just purchased 2 matching pairs of Ka Bar Folding Hunters with Stag handles and the "Doghead" shield in display cases. Never carried or sharpened, 1978, Beautiful knives!
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Post by Rebel KGC on Oct 8, 2008 7:00:13 GMT -5
;D kydave, (making appropriate "signs"...); Bro, you want $25,000... see above "posts" about looking for a DAGGER KNIFE!
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Post by kydave on Apr 2, 2009 21:35:20 GMT -5
Collectable knives are going "Sky High'' on E-bay! Can't get any at last year's prices! Some have doubled!
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Post by kydave on Sept 26, 2009 14:02:04 GMT -5
The price of collectable knives is still climbing. Must be a lot of people getting into it. Good news for me! ;D
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Post by kydave on Nov 21, 2009 18:25:05 GMT -5
Went to a Gun and Knife Show today. Guns have absolutely gone "Sky High"! I think it's an Obama thing! The word going around is he's going to tak'em away! Everybody's buying guns and stock piling ammo like something big is about to happen in the near future. I took an old 22 Colt pistol with me to see what i could get for it and in 10 minutes i had $700 in my hand from a Dealer that plans on reselling it for a profit!
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