Most collectable knife?

Ok, this might be kind of stupid, but what about Old Timer Knives by Imperial Schrade? I know my father and I have a ton of them and he and I have inherited lots of them from family members who have passed away. I've got 10. I know that people like to collect them but I don't know that they are collectable.
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Certainly, Schrade is collectible, infact its collectibily has grown quite a bit in the last few years. There is the collectiblity vrs. price thing that goes on though. While Old Timer is collectible most won't command a lot of money because of the production volumes involved.

Many knives are collectible, but few hold their monetery value:(.
 
tltt said:
Certainly, Schrade is collectible, infact its collectibily has grown quite a bit in the last few years. There is the collectiblity vrs. price thing that goes on though. While Old Timer is collectible most won't command a lot of money because of the production volumes involved.

Many knives are collectible, but few hold their monetery value:(.
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I thought about that after I posted. It's true that my collection will probably never be valuable. After I posted I got to looking at my collection and realized that even if they were worth some money, I'd never part with them. I've got 10 Schrades and 6 of them are almost exactly the same...or just the same style. Same style granddad gave me all those years ago.
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I know what I would collect...

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But it's more than likely (Case or SAK's)...
 
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A few years ago Blade Magazine did some research on this question.

Their results were the trapper pattern and the most collected brand of that pattern was Case.
 
agree that Case is a target for many collectors, given that it has been around for generations.
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Contrarily, I believe that Case targets collectors (no negative connotation implied)- with the countless variations and limited editions that they put out.
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I agree that Case is collected by many due to it's LE's and variations, but I think the fact that it's also been around for generations gives it some credibility -- it has the variations and LE's and has the name and history to go with it...in other words, if xyz knife company started up last year and started putting out limited editions in lots of varieties, I wouldn't be collecting them just because they had a bunch or varieties ( I would collect them if they were quality)...same goes for any knife company, old or new, if their quality stinks. Frost in my opinion will never be collectible, although there are people who collect them.

Interestingly enough, just the other day I went to see a guy who listed his knife collection for sale in the paper. So I went hoping that I'd find all kinds of gems, given that he told me over the phone that he had hundreds of old knives of all makes. When I got there he did have hundreds of knives, every one of them was either pakistani plastic handled piecers, commemorative Nascar knives and a whole crapload of Frost folders. When I left without buying anything he mumbled something about me being the 3rd guy that day to leave without opening his wallet. To me, if he enjoyed his hobby and the knives he collected over the years, then I guess that's all that matters, but in my opinion his knives were not collectible.

I think there is a distinct difference between 'collectible' and 'most collected'. Frosts are collectible in the adjective sense, Cases are collectible in the noun sense. In my original post, I gave my opinion of collectible which was a mistake because it looks like the OP was asking about 'most collected', in which case Bastid and the others who mentioned Case folders hit it on the noggin!

I collect first for enjoyment, and second for investment value. Collect whatever you want as long as you enjoy it. I personally collect Case military fixed blades...
 
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Sorry for the confusion, but I'm kinda glad it was confused... got a lot more interesting opinions that way. :D

Bastid's mention of Blade Mag's poll was interesting to me, as it backs up what most of us are thinking, and it makes sense... who hasn't handled a trapper? or a case?

For me, I think I've got stuck on Gerber MKII's... I don't really care about $$ and .. - get that one, dollar signs and decimal points... :D - it's the beauty of the knife and its history that appeals to me. I just bought my first one off of ebay - one of the later L6 models. I'm probably going to get their 70th anniversary model (CPM S30V) and work from there.

Side Note: After emailing them, I found out that Gerber's 70th Anniversary Edition MKII's CPM-S30V blade is treated to 58-60 Rc. I couldn't find that info using Google, so, just thought I'd put it out there for info sake.

I guess, in a sense, I'm not asking which ones are more collectible in the sense of availability or capability alone (Adjective?) or which ones are more collectible in the sense of monetary value alone (Noun?), but which ones are both available and of some fair quality (Confused?). :D Consequently, most of your suggestions hit the nail on the head.
 
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I guess, in a sense, I'm not asking which ones are more collectible in the sense of availability or capability alone (Adjective?) or which ones are more collectible in the sense of monetary value alone (Noun?), but which ones are both available and of some fair quality (Confused?). :D Consequently, most of your suggestions hit the nail on the head.
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Cool :thumbup:

Careful of any Gerbers that are any newer than mid-1980's...on newer ones, availability is certainly there, but the history and quality are now somewhat muddled now that Fiskars owns the company. The 70th Anniversary model does seem to be somewhat of an exception to this.
 
Well, this is a little off topic but I like what Spyderco does with some of their stuff. The Millitary model has been produced in several sprint runs using different steels for the blade eg BG42, CPM D2, CPM M4, and CPM S90V. That makes a nice little collection. They also do a similar thing with their Mule Team project using different steels in the same fixed blade knife configuration (cheaper to collect). They have an interesting project now with the Sage model, producing it in versions with different style locking mechanisms. IMHO that's pretty neat.
 
I would venture to guess Case and Shrade, there inexpensive and well made I personally like Cold Steel knives.I recently bought a Scottish spike. It is small and awesome.I have also started to collect Ek knives.My point being if you like it collect it and enjoy.
 
Here are the knives that I think that are collectible:
-The gerber BMF and the gerber Bowie.
-The MarkII and the Guardian II.
-The presidential grade MarkII and MarkI
-The Buckmaster 184
-The buck custom made bowies and custom made 110s
-Wilkinson made fairbairn/wa sykes dagger
-Bill Moran Knives
-Ardennlame Prairie and Tanazacq custom made French knives.
 
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Here are the knives that I think that are collectible:
-The gerber BMF and the gerber Bowie.
-The MarkII and the Guardian II.
-The presidential grade MarkII and MarkI
-The Buckmaster 184
-The buck custom made bowies and custom made 110s
-Wilkinson made fairbairn/wa sykes dagger
-Bill Moran Knives
-Ardennlame Prairie and Tanazacq custom made French knives.
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Hi

i' im in France and i have a very rare original Ardennlame Rocky Mountains made by Jean Tanazacq
and a Wilkinson Fairbairn like new ,
both at home since 25 years .
I have also catalog and tarif original Ardennlame for the year 1985

do you want pic' s ?
 
Sounds like the OP's asking what knife co. is highly collectable, but also readily available. Obviously, a mint Loveless original is going to be easily collectable, but not readily available.

I'd say Case, as that's pretty obvious. There's a lot of them & they're made to collect.

I'd also say Spyderco. Of the modern knives, discontinued Spyderco's seem to consistently hold or appreciate in value more than any other modern knife maker, IMHO. Granted, there're some BM, Kershaws, etc that are collectable, no doubt. However, a discontinued Spyderco just seems to "consistently" be worth its original retail price or more. & being that they're a modern knife, they're plentiful for the most part.

Interesting thread.
 
I havent started collecting them myself (yet) but several of my fellow knife collecters collect bulldog brand knives, another popular one ive found is the german eye brand
 
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