Utterly confused with a collection

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ZAYB87

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My step father passed away, and he seems to have a pretty good collection. I had been digging on the internet trying to find values, and have found it is insanely frustrating. I was going to be selling many to help my mother. What would be my best course of action to find these values, I just don't have a 1,000hrs to dig through this. I am a complete novice with knives, just love my old deer skinning blades. Is there a listing of quality appraisers? A have receipts of some, but I don't know how knife values change over 20, 30 years. I have found values on maybe 15-20% of these, but just frustrated. Appreciate any help
Some Brands:
Puma
Microtech
William & Henry
Kershaw
M. Sanders
Boker
Benchmade
Falkniven
Hen & Rooster
etc., etc, etc
 
Hi ZAYB,
Sorry for your loss and welcome to the forums. Unfortunately, we do not discuss values unless the person has a Gold level membership or higher. This is to help curtail abuse and backroom sales. Here is a link
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...MBERS-Please-read-this-WHAT-IS-MY-KNIFE-WORTH

Fortunately, we can help and give you accurate values and suggestions once you have a gold membership. Pictures would help a lot, specifically of any and all things included with each knife, document any wear or rust, etc. You can even sell them on the Exchange here.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/payments.php
 
Best way to figure out what they are 'worth' to the knife buying world... That auction site. They're only 'worth' is what others will pay you for them, after all.

And you dont need thousands of hours. Those knives arent going to get up and run off, so dont rush. Take time to learn all sorts of trivia about knives in general and you will sharpen quickly. Then specific info will be that much easier to sort out, since you have a generally increased familiarity with the blade world overall.

I'd say the first thing you should learn is maintenance and how to identify CELLULOID! If there are old knives in there with celluloid handles, they can destroy themselves and surrounding knives spontaneously and quickly.
Enjoy your blades.
 
I'd say get a gold membership here and we can just tell you. There is no better place on the internet to sell your knives as well.
 
Thanks for the advice Andre. Guess I am just a little overwhelmed at the moment. I have been blown away at the care he did for these knives. He made an individual felt holder for each knife, no rust anywhere, haven't even seen a finger print on a blade.
 
He sounds like every grandfather bro!!
Sorry for your loss.
Joe
 
You have a good example to follow then. I'd say he may have been wise enough to avoid the cell handles, but they sneak in on knives you'd never expect occasionally. There is a thread over in the traditionals subforum right now called 'ohhh, ive got gas!' that will offer some education on cell handles. Theres an article linked in there that is a worthy read on the same subject as well. Some german companies used cell for a while after it was found to be unstable and destructive. Mom had a pair of Buck Creek folders go up in fumes this past winter. Nasty. Poor knives. The corrosion was such that the springs broke when they were opened.

Good luck, and i think you will find that adding to the collection will be more rewarding than trying to figure out what it could move for. And if you are in a spot you have to move some off, then the gold membership here and the more honest folks around here will keep you from getting robbed once its kosher to talk dollars with them. I'd hope so, anyway.
 
ZAYB87 said:
Thanks for the advice Andre. Guess I am just a little overwhelmed at the moment. I have been blown away at the care he did for these knives. He made an individual felt holder for each knife, no rust anywhere, haven't even seen a finger print on a blade.
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The collector in me can appreciate the care he took of his knives. Obviously his collection meant a lot to him.

I agree with RevDevil. Buy yourself a Gold Membership and several things will happen right away. You'll instantly have access to one of the largest knife-specific sales sites on the Internet and you'll be able to direct questions about your knives to some of the most informed knife knuts you'll ever meet. If you're not careful, you might even catch the bug and become a knife knut yourself. Stranger things have happened. :)
 
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If you're trying to sell them off and you have as many as you claim, and they are in as good a condition as you claim, and you acquired them through an inheritance (truly my condolences), they cost you nothing financially, seriously the gold membership will pay for itself on your first sale... As mentioned, the guys (and gals) here will help you out, and you'll certainly come out ahead, also among us knife knuts you'll maybe help make someone else's day in some good deals?

If you're not getting the itch to become a knut yourself, pick out a few you like the most, for yourself, for sentimental reasons, maybe as heirloom pieces to hand down to your kids/grandkids, but with zero $ invested in, one lowend sale covers your gold membership, and the rest goes towards whatever... Better then sticking 'sm out on a yard sale table with no knowledge, and dealing with frugal hagglers and who knows what else if you ask me... At least here it's a full community of folks who are already willing to pay what the knife(s) are actually worth...

Let me know if you have any Kershaw Blur's ;)
 
Sorry for your loss. By the list, your Step Dad may have had a very nice collection with many modern high quality knives.
The forum is not only trustworthy, the folks here may be you best, fastest and most reliable customers.
 
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