Knives that money can't buy

Phixt said:
I'll give you $10,000 for your grandpap's Case.

No. No you won't. $10,000 will come and go this year alone many times over, but my regret would go on.

Okay -- I'll give you $1,000,000 for your grandpap's Case.

I look up with a thanks and smile, my grandpap already lookin back thinkin, Now don't be stupid, boy -- you better sell that damn knife. :thumbsup:
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I always found those theoretical transactions interesting, where would you threshold be? There is a lot of room between 10k and a million. Would you sell it for 100k? 250k? 500k?
 
A knife collector friend gave me the gift of a GEC TC Barlow last year. I will never sell this piece.
 
Museum pieces (as in owned by the museum) are about the only ones that I can think of and they sometimes eventually get sold. Knives with sentimental value are just that, but things change and the biggest is getting older and your priorities gradually change. Then you die and your heirs look at your knife collection and a big portion of them get sold at a garage sale or trashed. This is the circle of life and the circle of hobbies.
 
dirc said:
Here is one I'm sure will never be sold. :) (iron dagger from the bronze age and owned by the most famous king of the age)
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Ah, Steve Martin’s dagger.
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I suppose I'd sell every knife I own for a certain price, regardless of how sentimental it may be. But one can never buy the knife that doesn't exist. ;)
 
Money can't buy my assortment of favored users.
I may have made or customized them, or they may be sentimental from family or forum friends, but regardless I just plain like them.
I don't care what anyone may offer me for these knives or how badly I may need the money I would never sell these knives.
I like them and would end up replacing them, so there's no point in selling them.
 
First thing I thought of was this silly movie, 'Surf Ninjas'


But, otherwise, I guess if I just knuckled down I'd think of one...but, I can't right now
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dirc said:
Here is one I'm sure will never be sold. :) (iron dagger from the bronze age and owned by the most famous king of the age)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutankhamun's_meteoric_iron_dagger
it's interesting that it's about 13.5" in overall length, so I'd guess about 5" for the handle, leaving about 8.5" for the blade... three and a half thousand years later, those dimensions still seem to be a perfect fixed blade size
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There was a second knife found in the tomb next to the meteorite knife. It was made out of gold. Bet that would be even harder to buy. Either knife is
1. Unique
2. Irreplaceable
3. National treasures and antiquities of Egypt.

Willing to bet the only way you could "buy" either of these would require you to outfit and fund an army to overthrow and conquer Egypt and take the knives as spoils of war. Pretty steep price but I suppose it could be done.

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Perhaps, the legendary samurai sword called Honjo made by Masamune around 1300A.D. that was reported lost during world war II.
Japan warriors believed that the sword was so sharp and powerful even god can be killed
 
There are direct commissioned one-of-a-kind items in personal collections that are unknown and not for sale - at any price.
 
I make knives. But I don't have enough time to make knives. You can't pay me to make a knife.
 
22-rimfire said:
Yes, but what happens when the owner dies? About half the time (at least) the items are sold or given away.
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True. Over time many belongings get bought, sold, or destroyed. Beneficiaries all have different priorities, yet they all somehow gain awareness and interest in the expensive stuff.

No different than someone breaking into a property and simply stealing said item. Then turning around and dumping it for pennies for the cash.

There are families that get and stay wealthy by keeping it in the family.

The direct commissioned one-of-a-kind items in personal collections I refer to fall in the latter category.
 
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