eric myers

He died quite a few years ago, and his collection, which had been unavailable until the recent estate settlement, was purchased by a major dealer recently who is taking delivery a lot at a time, and gradually selling it off.
 
atakach said:
anyone ever hear of this collector i think he is from sweden, eric myers
just wondering?

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Not sure if the spelling is correct....Virgil England would know for sure......so would Dave Harvey from Nordic Knives, as he has a lot of stuff from that collection(see Betzner's statement above).

He was actually from Switzerland, not Sweden, and am pretty sure that he lived in Wisconsin.

He had a personal buyer working on his behalf, who would go through the New York Custom knife show and suck up all the great stuff like a black hole, back in the '80's....this I know for a fact, because I personally witnessed it in 1986.

The closest current analogy would have been Don Guild or Ed Wormser when they were first getting going, before they became dealers.:D;):D

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Interesting - I was wondering where all those old & exotic pieces on Nordic were coming from. More to come methinks...
 
this knife maker who has kinda taken me in as an apprentice said that eric had bought alot of knives of him he was tim nolfi he said one year he even bought every knife he had made that year.

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He would have all the knives shipped to his place in Wisconsin. Twice a year, he would arrive there and look through all the knives to see what had been bought for him. I noticed a thread on "world class collectors" and believe he would have been of that ilk were he alive today. Incidentally, he seemed to have a special affinity for Arizona knifemakers. One of the reasons so many of the Nordic knives have no sheaths is that they are from this collection, and many of the sheaths never survived/were lost.
 
He was one fine gentleman, very sorry to hear of his passing. When he bought a knife he would write a nice letter back. Always used Commemorative Cutlery Stamps on his letters. Through his active support he helped many knife makers to develop the knives of their dreams.
 
Just for more info on Mr. Myers
He had a large home in northern Michigan, which myself and my two young children had the pleasure of being invited to. We delivered fifeteen knives to him that day. Him and his wife treated my kids like they were his own grandchildren. We had spent the entire day there. He showed me his collection room. It was unbeliveable, and was only part of his collection.
He also had an apartment on 5th ave. in New York city. He had invited me and my wife there when I went to my first custom New York show in the middle 80's. We spent several hours there that evening (He bought half the knives I had taken for the show) When he found out that we had walked some distance to get there, he sent us back in a private limo. I don't belive there will ever be another collector like him. He was a Gentleman.
George Cousino
 
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