Holy crap it's for sale!!!

dirc said:
I don't get it - it's a modern art interpretation using gold - even if it's pure 24k gold, the weight of the blade & sheath are only about 10-20 oz - which is worth $20-40k

Buster did excellent work before he passed in 2005, and could easily command double or triple that range posthumously... say $60-120k, but jumping to a million?... honestly I don't see it

I guess in this modern age of so many billionaires it's really not a 'lot' - but back in my day, a million was actually significant
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I mean I'm unlikely to find that in my couch cushions either. I can't really either defend or attack the valuation. This one falls into the is it so unique that there is no real market for it category? I think it took Warenski 5 years to complete the piece which also probably increases the price to some degree?
 
I'd rather have the real tut dagger. Or maybe he had an as of yet undiscovered primitive switchblade I can find.
 
Triton said:
I mean I'm unlikely to find that in my couch cushions either. I can't really either defend or attack the valuation. This one falls into the is it so unique that there is no real market for it category? I think it took Warenski 5 years to complete the piece which also probably increases the price to some degree?
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D dirc yeah I’m kinda shocked by the valuation of it in the description but what is the real selling price from Dave? Maybe I missed it posted somewhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s off the charts though, he can ask some pretty high prices sometimes on stuff, even less embellished work.
 
Buy Power-Ball tickets.

If you win, you can afford to buy the Warensci dagger. . . . .and donate it to the? Smithsonian. Then I'd commission the creation of several new ones by a currently working prominent custom maker. Consecutive numbers and so on . . .

I would of course, do a number of other things with significantly more societal benefit, but the knife thing might be one of the "for-me" things.

The nurse says its time to take my meds now . . . .
 
They say the winner of the 2 billion Powerball was 5 person Lottery club of former Powerball employees in California..
 
Jsega51 said:
D dirc yeah I’m kinda shocked by the valuation of it in the description but what is the real selling price from Dave? Maybe I missed it posted somewhere. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s off the charts though, he can ask some pretty high prices sometimes on stuff, even less embellished work.
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It’s not posted they basically said to inquire about it.
 
I would be more impressed if the maker of this "knife", would have actually used meteorite-metal. Mom was an Egyptologist, as a child growing up in the AD 1960's, I was in Egypt every summer while she was getting her field credits. I've seen the real dagger. It was not for show, and Tut himself was quite a hunter/outdoorsman, good with a bow too, he even drove his own chariot(s)......She would absolutely laugh at this golden dagger, so do I.

It would be interesting to see a modern bladesmith, make a knife using meteorite-metal. Wonder if Dr. Larrin Thomas could provide some metallurgical insight concerning these metals, which are the same as we find on Earth, but have definitely seen some extremes in the way of cryogenics and "heat treating", impact resistance, and toughness as well.

Anyway...I'd value this golden dagger at the current price of gold, no more, no less. The real thing is priceless, no matter how much money a person has, the original simply cannot be bought...but a TRUE re-production could be bought.
 
Iowa Boy said:
I would be more impressed if the maker of this "knife", would have actually used meteorite-metal. Mom was an Egyptologist, as a child growing up in the AD 1960's, I was in Egypt every summer while she was getting her field credits. I've seen the real dagger. It was not for show, and Tut himself was quite a hunter/outdoorsman, good with a bow too, he even drove his own chariot(s)......She would absolutely laugh at this golden dagger, so do I.

It would be interesting to see a modern bladesmith, make a knife using meteorite-metal. Wonder if Dr. Larrin Thomas could provide some metallurgical insight concerning these metals, which are the same as we find on Earth, but have definitely seen some extremes in the way of cryogenics and "heat treating", impact resistance, and toughness as well.

Anyway...I'd value this golden dagger at the current price of gold, no more, no less. The real thing is priceless, no matter how much money a person has, the original simply cannot be bought...but a TRUE re-production could be bought.
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There were two daggers found in the tomb. One had a meteorite blade the other a hardened gold blade. Warensky has reproduced both of them.

n2s
 
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