Value of Early CRK Green Beret

[wharncliffe]

Hi, I'm looking for some help in evaluating a Chris Reeve Green Beret with a birth card dated in November of 2002. Research indicates that this was about the time that CRK first started making these knives available for sale, suggesting that this knife is a very early example. As far as I can tell, this knife has not been used, carried or sharpened (see photos). Anyone have thoughts on what it's worth?

 

[Mk-211]

All comes down to what someone is will to pay, and what you're willing to let it go for.

$750 would be a good starting point, if you want to move it.

 

[VorpelSword]

My first move in researching this would be e_bay. Search for that knife in completed sauctions.

Go to the front page, enter the search terms, then look tothe right. There will be a small prompt for ""advanced". click oon that and check a box for "sold". then click "search".

A series of compleated auctions will come up that are exactly what you put in or similar.

Often the "Sold" or "Ended" listings will be somewhat less than the original asking price.

 

[VorpelSword]

I bought a CRk GB in 2004 at something like $250. Paid a premium for it at a major retail gun store in Houston.
That blade was advertised as S30V steel . . . THE steel to have back then. Since then CRK has changed steels several times working up through S35VN to S45VN and something else too I think. Current versions of this knife are in Magnacut.

There have been variations in handle color between Green, a tan-ish brown and black. Same for the sheath I think.

I am guessing that the desirability (how easily it will sell) and so its "value" (what it will sell for) may be lower than a new current model.

This is not the case for CRK's discontinued one piece, hollow handle line which now sell for upwards of $2,000.

 

[wharncliffe]

Thank you both very much for the information.