$7,500. Busse Collection ??

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Okay, here is the deal - your great great aunt on your father's side just passed away (you never met her) leaving you $7,500. that you DON'T need to pay bills. So you have decided that Busses are safer and more fun than stocks and you want to "invest" the $7500 on Busses.

Which will you choose? Here is my fantasy $7500 Busse collection. Let me know what you would put in your collection:

1. Original American Kensei (perhaps $2000 if you could find one)
2. Argonne Assault - the "knuckle knife" (perhaps $1500 if you could find someone and pry it out of their dead, cold fingers!)
3. Straight Handled Clip Point Battle Mistress - $1000 one of the first INFI BMs
4. Straight Handled "Ghost" Busse Steel Hearts (the Busse name/logo is barely noticeable - $1000) very rare.
5. I wanted to stay away from Variants but there is one that Jerry said he would never duplicate - Chip's Quintuple grind SH - $750(would that do it Chip??)
6. A Lean Mean Street, Flying Tiger and Bad Apple (all destined to go up in value) $1500

Okay, so I went over by a little bit.....so sue me!
 
I would have a 6 foot INFI Calymore made. With about a 4" wide blade. OOOOOOH YEAH that would rock! About 1.5 Feet of Handle and 4.5 Feet of Blade. Daddy likes.
 
How about some picture of these knifes to help us make up our minds?
I'll start...

Is this the BM?
and I'm told there are 3 LMS with Tan handles

(sorry about the "B", I had to prop up the BM so you could see the tip :)
 
that sure looks like it. The expert, who happens to have one in his possession might care to weigh in. DN ??

How about you Papathud, I know you know alot about those BMs as well...
 
Hmmm, the hard part is staying under that $7500 limit :) Lets see....

1)Battle Mistress Collector's Edition. Considering I have searched the depths of Hell and back with no success I am putting a price tag of $1200 on it.

2)Sister set of Flying Tigers both w/ serrations and smooth polished black micarta handles. (what do these run $800 each? somthing like that?). Sad, I've got a down payment on this and never asked what the knife costs!

3)American Kensai, although I've only seen the one or two photos just posted recently. $2000? I'm just using contender's number, these were way before my time so I've got no idea what they sold for back in the day.

4)Bird's Beak Steel Heart, PLEEEEAAASSSEEE Chuck!! :) Just one of them! :D $1000

5)Complete PBF Series but in the Bad Apple's integral handle style, Now that would rock!! $800 (?)

6)Jungle Assault Battle Mistress, my mouth waters everytime I look at that pic :) $900

So, $1200+$1600+$2000+$1000+$800+$900=$7500 :D
 
False edges eh? :)

p.s. - These are two members of a very special three piece set I assembled by hand one purchase at a time. Their sister?.....well, maybe another time :D
 
Definitely a Jungle Assault BM!
In addition, I would love to get the complete runndown of SH's:)

If anything is left I would offer to buy the INFI throttle knob off of Bubba's JD:cool:
 
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