OK, so maybe my wife has a point.....

If ya look in the upper left corner you'll see a doublesided box with a collection of gas pump knives and it's real hard to see, but above that is my new passion, old production minatures, remember the old Bowie knives ya used ta get at the trading posts when ya went on vacation wit your family? They were real big in the 50's and 60's.

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T. Erdelyi, so you like the older celluloids. So do I, that and the MOP are what I started collecting, many many knives ago...These date anywhere from about 1911 through about 1943.
 
I might be knutz, but the older Colonials seem to have the most facination, the older cheaper knives were everywhere 30 years ago, but just like the scout knives, they were used to the point of destruction. Fewer and fewer mint examples are available.

Here are some other collections in collections

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I wish BladeForums had or would start an Antiques forum, I think there are more antique junkies that just don't want to admit to it.
 
Long before tactical there were older production folders, I'd have to say that at least 70 % of my collection is from the 50's and before.

Estae auctions, flea markets and yard sales, my palms still get sweaty when I find an old near mint example of any older production knife.

I traded an old Leatherman for an old Colonial Fishknife that belonged to a 60 year old guys father,(he remembers it from when he was a kid), it was rarely used and had the original Colonial box it came with.

I'll try to post a pic later.

All those old production pieces, and all those old pattern variations, sometimes it was just a blade shape or a handle material, but you could collect them forever.

And like I said there are fewer and fewer mint examples of these knives, 10 years from now you'll be reading how B. Levine hasn't seen such a fine example since the 90's.
 
I know, at one time (3-4 years ago) you could get on E-Bay and find mint knives, 60-70 years old for a minimal price. Now, if its not a fake (I've got a growing collection of these) they want an arm and leg for it, and it never turns out to be anywhere near mint. So even those knives that you thought weren't worth much because of just being in "good" shape are suddenly increasing in value because the mint knives just can't be found. And the knives, like Colonial, that never had much demand are all of a sudden "hot" because the big name brands are becoming so scarce. For example, that R.H. Boker, I picked that up on E-Bay 3 years ago and paid less than $20 for it. Since then I've been offered over $200.
 
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