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oldmanrunning

oldmanrunning

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This rather sad picture i have just found on my computer is of most of my little collection of GEC knives that i had to part with last year...
 
My favorite pattern, about 1/6th of my collection recently stolen. They missed the new in the box examples in the back row, about all I have left of this pattern.

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I can't even imagine losing my knives but especially loosing them to theft! I would have so much rage inside knowing my knives where not only gone but in the hands of a scumbag thief and there is nothing I could do about it. I would be furious if somebody stole a pack of gum from me just because of the principal and the fact I hate thieves but my knife collection would push me over the top for sure! I'm sorry for your loses! Some very nice knives in both these pictures.
 
I feel you guy's pain.....

150+ knives lost in the '06 Texas wildfires. (here's some I could find)

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One of the few knives I had with me that survived. My 1st Pioneer.

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Ouch, that's really lousy. I'm sorry that happened to you. There's just too much of that going on.
 
Codger_64 said:
My favorite pattern, about 1/6th of my collection recently stolen. They missed the new in the box examples in the back row, about all I have left of this pattern.
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Very bad news :(

SAK Guy said:
150+ knives lost in the '06 Texas wildfires.
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I was thinking of you as I read this my friend.

Twenty years ago I had almost every knife I owned stolen, including the 'Jack Black Knives' I had put 2 years' worth of blood, sweat, and tears into. Took me a while to bounce back I admit, but you do...
 
Jack Black said:
Very bad news :(



I was thinking of you as I read this my friend.

Twenty years ago I had almost every knife I owned stolen, including the 'Jack Black Knives' I had put 2 years' worth of blood, sweat, and tears into. Took me a while to bounce back I admit, but you do...
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Indeed, perspective and attitude are everything. I'll never again reassemble the collection shown above. Over a decade of searching for them in the first place, some made in the first year of production, 1966-67, some one of only a few ever made. But forum members found out through a family member and gestures of generosity abounded. So even from this personal disaster has come some good. New forum friends for one thing. And help replacing the non-knife items taken or destroyed like monitor, keyboard and camera. None of which I asked for. Oh... and some new unique traditional pattern custom fixed blades too. How cool is a modern recreation of a c. 1902 Marbles Ideal with stag handle and stag butt? Or the new friend who made it for me. And on the other hand the local police chief has taken on the challenge of finding the knives and the thieves. It could actually happen yet.
 
oldmanrunning said:
This rather sad picture i have just found on my computer is of most of my little collection of GEC knives that i had to part with last year...
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Did you sell that 54 moose on the bay? It looks remarkably similar to the one I bought late last year. If so, know that it has a good home and you can visit anytime you like. 😄

Michael
 
In 40 + years of accumulating knives I've never misplaced more than a half a dozen knives, most found within 5 years or so from the time it was lost, I have broke a few but for the most part I still have most of the knives I've ever bought, been given or found, (keep in mind I grew up in a salvage yard, we never got rid of anything until it was nothing more than scrap melt).

The nice thing about collecting modern traditionals is that for the most part they're replaceable and the designers, makers are still around... now try that with 100-150 year old folder. Much less to work with, fewer and fewer examples to work with.

It's the ones with the most memories, the ones with the longest history, when they come up missing they hurt the most, they're the ones i still hold out hope for, missing 10 years and i believe that when i move I'll find it under a drawer somewhere, how I'm not sure as I've turned every drawer in the house inside up but i know that David Winston Micarta folder is in the back somewhere.
 
Wow-SAK-lost in a fire, also Codgers ordeal, and yours Jack - I feel gutted when I read this, its actually quite upsetting for me to imagine what you guys went through - with me putting myself in your position - it has to come down to what has already been said, the strength to overcome! and that takes guts!
 
Campbellclanman said:
Wow-SAK-lost in a fire, also Codgers ordeal, and yours Jack - I feel gutted when I read this, its actually quite upsetting for me to imagine what you guys went through - with me putting myself in your position - it has to come down to what has already been said, the strength to overcome! and that takes guts!
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Thanks Duncan, there's worse things in life, as you know, my friend.
 
RRaconteur said:
Did you sell that 54 moose on the bay? It looks remarkably similar to the one I bought late last year. If so, know that it has a good home and you can visit anytime you like. ��

Michael
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I doubt it Michael as i sold it privately. If i may highjack your post, after reading of collections lost to fire and thieving scum i did at least get something for mine, and i am starting to put together a nice Case "selection"...
 
I feel for you guys. About 25 years ago my house was burglarized while I was at work, and among other things they got a pre-war S&W registered .357 magnum. I still miss it.
 
black mamba said:
I feel for you guys. About 25 years ago my house was burglarized while I was at work, and among other things they got a pre-war S&W registered .357 magnum. I still miss it.
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Sorry bro, lost guns are bad too...I lost some in that same fire.

I should be over it all by now....
 
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