What will happen to your collection?

I continue to insist that I'm not a collector, but I'm getting too many slipjoints. The kids get them. I've already started, including gifting to nice GEC's to long time friends.
 
Peregrin said:
I'm not going to spend eternity knifeless!
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I agree with Mark's assessment of this quote!

And I have a pretty good sense that the knives we will have on the other side will make what we treasure now seem a pittance.
 
I slipped his SAW into my fathers pocket as the lid was closed. But my ashes will go in a river, I don't think I will burn one up. Then again maybe I just won't burn a 'good' one up. If lucky will spend the next 35+ years picking a bad one...ha 300
 
Not sure who'll get mine. I'm only 30, still single, and don't have any kids. I guess my father and sisters would get them. My father is a one knife guy though, only recently putting down his Wenger (don't know the model) for a SAK Classic. My middle sister doesn't seem to interested other than having users (to open deliveries of new shoes :rolleyes:) but my younger sister does like to look at my new ones. I've already gifted both of them SAK Classics and a Peanut. I was thinking of gifting my CSC Half moon trappers in pink and green abalone as those are their favorite colors. Today is nice day...
 
I don't have a collection, and I'm aware I will never have one.
The few knives I have.....I don't know where they will end up, most probably lost or forgotten, unless I'm wise enough to do as Carl says and give them away while I'm still around. Or, maybe, I will be lucky to have someone younger in my family to enjoy them and pass them over.

Fausto
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I am nearly 50 with a fair collection. I have no one to leave it to but when the time comes that I am no longer able to care for and enjoy my knives I will sell all but two.
I have left instructions for those two to go in the ground with me.........

Steven
 
Some will be the problem of a few family members, friends here and elsewhere. If I shuffle off my mortal coil in the near future, my dad who is 88 and of sound mind and body knows what to do. :D.
 
my meager pile of less than mint knives, etc (i carry all of them) will go to my son, he's a bit of a knife nut so got that covered.
now the important part, i am then going to travel upnorth and haunt Waynorths collection!!!
I imagine its a bit like willy wonka only sharp and pointy!:D
gene

PS and if the whalers or toenails are outta place it wasnt me!
 
This is a question that causes me much concern. My excesses of the last few years means i now have over 6000 knives.
They span a wide range of age, origin and condition and are the result of spending about $450,000.
I have 4 children but none are in a position to learn enough about knives to be able to sell them individually and know what they are selling.
So i have created a problem for my children: "What do we do with Dad's knives" ?
I'd like to sell most of them but living in Canada makes this a challenge as 99% of knife buyers are Americans and very high Canada Post costs means that many potential buyers won't bid if listed on ebay, so a lot of value is lost.
Knife auctioneers are all in the USA and i cannot send down knives for auction because of complex USA knife importation rules.
I'd like to be able to leave a few very special knives to my children, such as my vintage Jos. Rodgers folders to one, my Custom folders to another, etc., and have all the rest already sold so that each would also receive a decent amount of money, but i don't know how to sell app. 6000 knives. If each could be properly marketed so as to find interested buyers, a minimum of $500,000 would be realized.
Has anyone here been in a similar situation and care to offer a possible solution ?
thanks, roland
 
With the exception of a number of special bequests, my son will inherit it.

I imagine I'm typical.

[Thought about it ... a bit ... but I'm not going to 'take it with me.']
 
Bastid said:
Some will be the problem of a few family members, friends here and elsewhere. If I shuffle off my mortal coil in the near future, my dad who is 88 and of sound mind and body knows what to do. :D.
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Not happening.

You're far too tuff to "shuffle off" any time soon.:)

Your Dad is just going to have to buy his own.;)
 
I got to thinking (that's rare!) with no one to hand them down to, and if I go before the wife, they will probably end up as trash. I 2 had some Randels and decided just to sell them, so someone else could have pleasure with them.
 
I'm 43, but I have been living with stage 4 cancer since 1995 so I always have thoughts like this in my head. When I got out of the Army in '99 I probably had around $7k in custom knives. Over the years I have sold some to pay bills, traded a few towards something else, or given them to good friends. Once I pass almost all my knives will be split among my 2 boys. A small few will go to my wife & some close friends. One will be left on the Rakkasan memorial at Ft. Campbell when my ashes are scattered. And one other will be left at a waterfall in N. Ga. where I proposed to my wife.

But if anyone knows of a funeral home that does Viking Funerals my plans might change. :)
 
rprocter said:
This is a question that causes me much concern. My excesses of the last few years means i now have over 6000 knives.
They span a wide range of age, origin and condition and are the result of spending about $450,000.
I have 4 children but none are in a position to learn enough about knives to be able to sell them individually and know what they are selling.
So i have created a problem for my children: "What do we do with Dad's knives" ?
I'd like to sell most of them but living in Canada makes this a challenge as 99% of knife buyers are Americans and very high Canada Post costs means that many potential buyers won't bid if listed on ebay, so a lot of value is lost.
Knife auctioneers are all in the USA and i cannot send down knives for auction because of complex USA knife importation rules.
I'd like to be able to leave a few very special knives to my children, such as my vintage Jos. Rodgers folders to one, my Custom folders to another, etc., and have all the rest already sold so that each would also receive a decent amount of money, but i don't know how to sell app. 6000 knives. If each could be properly marketed so as to find interested buyers, a minimum of $500,000 would be realized.
Has anyone here been in a similar situation and care to offer a possible solution ?
thanks, roland
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I'm coming up in the near future :)
 
"I'm coming up in the near future "
I've thought about that. Set a date in the summer and invite all BF'ers up. Display knives by collections, Like 4 folders of Fight'n Roosters, 10 of Schrade, etc. and make it a silent auction. A low bid might score 10-20x or more the value in knives.
Everybody goes home happy, my kids are relieved they don't have 2 full sized PU truck loads of knives to deal with, plus they get some cash.
roland
 
rprocter said:
This is a question that causes me much concern. My excesses of the last few years means i now have over 6000 knives.
They span a wide range of age, origin and condition and are the result of spending about $450,000.
I have 4 children but none are in a position to learn enough about knives to be able to sell them individually and know what they are selling.
So i have created a problem for my children: "What do we do with Dad's knives" ?
I'd like to sell most of them but living in Canada makes this a challenge as 99% of knife buyers are Americans and very high Canada Post costs means that many potential buyers won't bid if listed on ebay, so a lot of value is lost.
Knife auctioneers are all in the USA and i cannot send down knives for auction because of complex USA knife importation rules.
I'd like to be able to leave a few very special knives to my children, such as my vintage Jos. Rodgers folders to one, my Custom folders to another, etc., and have all the rest already sold so that each would also receive a decent amount of money, but i don't know how to sell app. 6000 knives. If each could be properly marketed so as to find interested buyers, a minimum of $500,000 would be realized.
Has anyone here been in a similar situation and care to offer a possible solution ?
thanks, roland
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Roland, My advice would be to start selling ASAP. If you do 15 ebay auctions each week X 52 weeks = 780 per year it will take about 7.6923076 years to completely sell all 6000 knives.....but only if you stop buying more, and only sell. The only problem i see is, without a key buyer (you) the market place wont be the same. Barry
 
Barry, because i live in Canada, any sale to someone in USA means i need to mail the knife from a USA P.O. I could do this as Northport, WA. is not too far away. But every knife needs to be declared at the border and a USA Customs form completed and then a $10.75 importation duty paid. It takes about 45 minutes per knife.
If i mail from Canada, our postal fees are 4-5x what USPS charges and delivery to a USA customer would take 2 weeks+.
99% of knife buyers are in USA and they wouldn't even bid because of the high shipping cost. In Canada it's difficult to give a knife away there is so little interest.
Otherwise my ebay # of 4000 would be way higher because i would already have been selling. Hence i posted in this thread as ebay selling of just knives does not seem like a realistic option for me.
Also i don't think i have 7.69 years left, but i do appreciate your kind words. Thank you.
roland
 
rprocter said:
..... i don't think i have 7.69 years left, but i do appreciate your kind words. Thank you.
roland
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I have no illusions about what will happen to my collection. Most of it will likely be dumped at a garage sale or sold to one or more local "antiques dealers", the rest will be given away to goodwill or somesuch. It's pointless to leave extensive instructions, ledgers, or notes; if they haven't bothered to learn from the source while you were available they are not going to bother to read the stuff and they will just be upset that you didn't leave them a wad of ready cash in a bank account instead. If the family is simply not going to put the time in to realize more than 1% of the collection's market value, they will end up with exactly what they deserve. You are the one who is leaving the asset; would it be more reasonable to ask you to give up your time to convert that which gives you pleasure into a liquid asset to benefit someone who is unwilling to commit more than the time it takes to transfer the balance? As far as I am concerned the duty is on them and not on you.

Enjoy every day, life is too short to worry about what may happen when you are gone.

n2s
 
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