Need some advice about cleaning

Pygmalion

Pygmalion

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I recently purchased the 100th Anniversary 34OT pictured below. It is in the original packaging. There is some tarnish on the right bolster adjacent to the delrin handle slab. I would prefer not to open the packaging. From a collector's point of view, would it be best to leave the package unopened, or does the tarnish/staining warrant opening and properly cleaning the knife.
If the tarnish/staining will eventually become worse, and one day be impossible to remove, the package should probably be opened and the stains properly removed.
I would appreciate any advice that those of you with experience have to offer.

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Oh No I can see where this is heading . I wonder what the snaps like?

You could make a neat little hole with a Watercutter .
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Flitz is good for bolster cleaning. Are we back to another clam pack dilemma?
 
i was gonna hold my tongue, but compared to using a water jet... :D
this is why i don't care for cut-me-plastic packaging. truth is (Schrade collectors do NO crucify me for this comment) that a chinese knife looks just as nice nestled inside a sealed package. it's not until you hold it and feel it that they become distinctly different.

Pygmalion,
this is not my dilemma, it's not my knife, so i am speculating as to what i would do. i like to handle my knives. i like to touch them, hold them in the light, yes, open the blades and close them. i would discretely slice open the bottom, remove the knife, remove the tarnish, and then store the knife in a box (i have plenty) next to the cut-me-plastic packaging. but that's just me. my collection has very few mint knives.

let the bashing begin.
 
Pygmalion said:
No - this is a serious question.
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Pyg,
mine was a serious answer. maybe it makes me not a true collector, but i place little value on a thing in a sealed package. to me, part of the value is to hold, touch, maybe even carry and use if it came upon me. i love knives for what they are, knives. (not that i would buy a morgan silver dollar so that i could spend it mind you.) to me, it is worth every bit as much opened as sealed.

i understand that you have others you can fondle. so, if you bought the one in the sealed package because it was, well, in a sealed package, then by all means do not open it. that little bit of discoloration isn't gonna do any harm, imho.

greg
 
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