What is the future of old ivory Buck knives?

bucksway said:
One old white handled Buck worth more than Ivory is the White Melanie (SP ?) Buck made for a few months in the 60's. One thing for SURE is 'papered' Old Custom Shop Ivory Bucks are never never going to be cheap or any kind of bargain. At least with a informed seller. That's a real problem with the old unnumbered knives or ones separated from the paperwork or COA. You can have a old knife rehandled very easily by any number of folks including the famous guys who worked at Buck in the day. And if you supply the Ivory it can be done inexpensively or reasonably. But if you are lucky enough to find a numbered Ivory Old Custom Shop with papers/COA expect the cost to be double, triple or even more than what it would cost to have one made.
Just like a low milage original Hemi Cuda convertible sells for over 2 million but a otherwise identical restomod goes for a fifth of that price. There's just not many that were ever made and fewer survive. I have the last Old Custom Shop 112 shipped (0136) in Mastodon with a mirror polished Custom blade and I KNOW I was lucky to get a chance to buy it.. Can't find that on Ebay...
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Larry Oden has (had) a complete set of those beautiful old white melamine fixed blades. I wanted them bad but you needed big boy money to buy those.
 
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