I think I just found the most exspensive knife in the world

betzner said:
STeven, the neat thing is we both have our grail - and at Blade, you'll see the Main Gauche and once I take Phil up on the invite to fish, I'll get to see Phil's King Tut. It's a life dream, actually, just to see it.
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Ah....Phil will probably let you hold it too....be happy to show you my grail knife in person, but it might be anti climactic after the Tut.:)

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
JParanee said:
I wonder what the original is worth


I guess the word priceless comes to mind but everything has a price:D
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Original: I doubt that this knife would ever be allowed to be sold. That said, it IS priceless.

This would appear to be the 'owner' according to Wikipedia.
In 2005, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, in partnership with Arts and Exhibitions International and the National Geographic Society, launched the U.S. tour of the Tutenkahamun treasures and other 18th Dynasty funerary objects
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Almost as valuable as his mask.... ;)

Coop
 
Joe, there is no way to put a value on something like the original dagger. Remember that the Mona Lisa was insured for $100 million when it went on tour......in the early 1960's!!!! I don't think that any single piece of art sold for anything close to that until the crazy art price boom of the 80's and early 90's when ANY Van Gogh would sell for at least $30-40 million. Someone might put an insurance value of say $500 million on the Mona Lisa today, but we will never really know because the likelihood of it or any Leonardo oil painting ever coming to the market again is slim at best. Same deal with any of the burial items from Tutankamun's tomb. Actually, it is LESS likely that we will ever see burial items for sale becuase there are two's Leonardo in the Hermitage collection, one that is generally accepted as authentic and one that is disputed and one disputed canvas in private hands, so those could come up for sale in theory.
 
The Gem of the Orient was featured in the Aug 1991 Blade Magazine. It was commissioned by a knife purveyor in Japan and was offered for sale it his store opening for a cool $1.5 million. This is my all time favorite knife. I saved the Magazine and look at it from time to time. Buster's work is in a class far beyond most of us.
 
Sohail,

There are many, many knives/blades that COULD best the King Tut dagger in sale price...something say from the three musketeers, one of the finest from Masamune...many, many others in museums....but for contemporary blades, something made in the last 100 years....nothing will beat Buster Warenski's King Tut dagger.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

castor0troy said:
nice thread guys.
talking of the most expensive blades-this dagger which belonged to the once ruler of india 'shah jahan' sold for 1.7m pounds some years back.
http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publ...ailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=3832378&iSaleNo=16444

wish i could have that one in my collection.
:)

-Soh
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ptgdvc said:
I think Coop needs to do a proper image of the original one.
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That's funny, Peter....you have to remember when Buster and Phil were working on the Tut dagger project, there were like TWO color pictures of it with enough resolution to ALMOST copy it....as it was, an interpretation is the result.

No one has published high resolution photographs of the original King Tut dagger, but there are some pretty decent shots of it out there at this point.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Keep in mind there were 2 royal daggers in Tut's tomb. I have heard (or read on the internet, so it must be true) that the iron dagger was not allowed to leave the country because it was too valuable- far more valuable than the solid gold one!

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the possum said:
Keep in mind there were 2 royal daggers in Tut's tomb. I have heard (or read on the internet, so it must be true) that the iron dagger was not allowed to leave the country because it was too valuable- far more valuable than the solid gold one!

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Interesting. But yes, an iron dagger of that quality and provenance from that early in history that hadn't been reduced to a small pile of rust in the ensuing 3300 years might truly be more of a rare bird than one made of gold, I would guess!!!!! As far as I can remember, the folks in what is today Turkey and India had been messing with iron for a few centuries by the 1320's BC, but at the time of Tut's death, iron was probably still a couple of hundred years away from totally supplanting bronze in that part of the world. You would almost have to think that the blade of that dagger might have been a gift or purchase from somewhere a bit to the north and east of Egypt that had the handle a sheath made locally.
 
Kohai999 said:
Sohail,

There are many, many knives/blades that COULD best the King Tut dagger in sale price...something say from the three musketeers, one of the finest from Masamune...many, many others in museums....but for contemporary blades, something made in the last 100 years....nothing will beat Buster Warenski's King Tut dagger.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
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i hear Ya Steven.
i coundnt agree less.
i love the Warenski King Tut.

just wondering.is there any maker today who could replicate that dagger?

-Soh
 
There is a high resolution of the gold dagger at
ht tp://specialartgalleryexhibits.suite101.com/article.cfm/tutankhamun

I cant imagine even trying to do something like this without a kiln with precise temperature controls.

Sorry for the re post i thought my first post was not aproved.
 
^^^ Thanks for this link. That's a good quality example when blown up to 100%.

The scene on the sheath is carnage when you look closely! :eek:

Coop
 
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