P23 Small Sebbie Mint - Just Out of Safe - No Box, etc. - A Keeper??

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This one stunned me when I just saw it. It has that surface muck on it here and there and needs the typical cleaning of the flat part of the top, but otherwise this is a kind of graphic I have never seen. The circles slope downward from the sides and then up to a point in the center. What may look like rectangles are actually cylinderical! Comments, please, I am begging for them on this one. I am pretty certain I am keeping it, but just haven't seen this kind of graphic before.
 
I got this one in late '92, early '93. I seriously do not remember the graphic from back then. And boom, into the safe. I really had nothing back then to compare it with. But having seen everything happening since then 'til now, I really haven't personally seen anything quite like this one. I think insane is a helluva good way to describe it, actually!
 
OK, the primary question here is whether anyone has seen a graphic in this general style before, ie, conical swell to a point in the middle of a circle with concave rectangular carvings?
 
:eek:

I haven't seen a graphic of similar style at all. Very nice and a very early P number as well. You better keep it! we'll flog you if you sell it!

(Unless you sell it to one of us!)
 
Dave - I have a HUGE bias toward keeping it. I really cannot imagine selling it, ever. I am glad I am getting input on whether anyone has seen anything like it, though. It makes it more unique to me and thus more desirable to keep, as if the P23 didn't make it desirable enough, anyway. I bought this off Chris at a show in late '92 or early '93, no box or docs at all. Such is life. It gives me another reason to keep it. Thus the great bias not to sell. Thanks for the input, buddy!
 
Well, I learned a little more about the P23. Here is part of the reply to an email to Chris Reeve asking about three different knives. "Your P23 Sebenza is one of the first we decorated. It could possible be the first, but we have no records....Yours, more than likely, was created by Chris himself." They are great at communicating with customers and collectors. The best!
 
I am definitely keeping this one --- and locking this thread up after Dave's reply below.
 
" I am definitely keeping this one."

You should print out their email and keep it with the knife. great story!
 
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