Real World Auctions/Estate Sales

Rocinante

Rocinante

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Do any of you go to real world auctions and estate sales to hunt for knives?

I'd like to hear some stories of good finds.

My amazing auction story doesn't concern a knife (haven't found any treasures yet) but boxes.

Gunboxes to be more precise.

I got about 15 gunboxes for $2.50 (one guy bid a buck and quit).

Among them were two old Winchester boxes and several old Ruger handgun boxes (some were just the plain cardboard shipping box that the colored box goes into).

Sold them (about six of the good ones) individually on e-Bay and ended up making about $350 (almost half of that was on one Old Model Single-six box).

THAT was an education. I was just hoping I might get $25 or $50 for the whole works.

So I've been watching for boxes....and now I'll know enough to watch for Buck boxes, too.

Anybody else got a story or special things you look for?
 
I am notably poor at finding Bucks at estate auctions or garage sales. Of course every time I run into someone using an old Buck I say "do you have any idea how much that old knife is worth??" Doesn't make for good deal finding. :rolleyes:
 
Have you considered saying, "A classy guy like you should have a newer knife than that ugly old thing.....how about I trade you one?"

:D
 
Hey... I need to try that next time :p

Although there is a gray area somewhere between getting a good deal and robbing someone blind.
 
Well, I usually leave them with one eye (if they're nice people I leave them with just a little astigmatism).

:D
 
I try to hit the pawn shops regularly. If they have any Bucks they almost always want an arm and a leg. If the knife is really beat up then only an arm. I am still searching for that treasure at a steal price.
 
Yeah, well.....the truth is, they usually leave me blind, armless and legless.

:D
 
All of my buck knives (and the majority of my knives in general) have come from flea markets. I go to flea markets, yardales, estate sale and auctions looking solely for pellet guns, knives, and recurve bows. I find more knives than anything. I restore and rebuild the air/pellet guns and usually resell them to fund my knife habit. The bows i resell unless they are models that I am looking for, like the Bear Super magnum or ben pearson ambusher
 
Now that's what I'm talkin' about.....muskrat man shares some of his methods and strategies.....only problem is, I'm not talented enough to fix air rifles (or much of anything else either).

Darn!

I am starting to enjoy the auctions, though. I took an early retirement so I could go to more of them.
 
I hit a lot of garage sales in the spring, and am looking for hunting extras, decoys, waders, coats etc. I then ask if they have any guns for sale, seeing as they have the extras. About one in 5 results in a hit. About 3 hits results in something i want to buy. Amazing how many old time hunters used just crappy guns, but I have made some amazing finds. one house I ended up buying over 50 guns from, winchesters, colts, springfields, remingtons, and others.
 
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