did i rip myself off?

my guess, it will bring between 1300 and 1500 at a min.,heck there is an 858ot lumberjack with a bid of 102.00 right now.
 
Thanks for the info Codger - the eBay display case does match your photo. The background wasn't a style I had seen before.

-Bob
 
Sorry Larry, I couldn't help it :) . That 3 against 1000 post was hilarious! So how much can a Koala bear?
Codger, so far I find that scrims started in 1976, two years after the change from Schrade-Walden. Those wood handled LB's don't belong there either
Eric
 
ea42 said:
...Codger, so far I find that scrims started in 1976, two years after the change from Schrade-Walden. Those wood handled LB's don't belong there either
Eric
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You have caught on. Now, this doesn't lessen the value of the individual knives, though there are no papers or boxes, and you aren't shown each knife to understand their conditions (dang, if I sold a piece like this on eBay, the pictures would be the description). And we don't know if the board has been pierced and repierced to change the hanging arrangement. As I said, judge for yourself each individual piece, and the board seperately. It probably is a collector's assemblage, but it is nice, and probably could be put back period correct with time and effort. And money. The complete display sold for about $1500 back in 1970-73, and included the wired in knives, the rolling display stand with a storage back containing three, four, and five of each knife. This display may have originally been only as you see it for wall mounting (I have no such display in my illustration archives), or salvaged from the one I showed above.

Michael
 
No, the Girl Scout set, and the Boy Scout sets that preceeded it, were made by the George Schrade Knife Company in Bridgeport COnnecticut after he split with his brothers from Schrade Cutlery. Most of the wire jacks you see were his, or his son's. I have several of his fixed blade knives. His son sold out to Boker not long before the switchblades were outlawed, and since George was one of the prime inventors of switchblades, it was the focus of that company. Boker had a cat in a poke when the law came down in 1958, I think it was.

Michael
 
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