Whats up with Imperials on Ebay?

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wing40

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Along with the Schrades I like to collect the old Imperial cheapies. Lately the price of some Imperials in particular the Frontiers has passed the USA Schrades! Did everyone just figure out they are collectable or what. Looks like the days of picking up Imperials and Frontiers for next to nothing are gone.
 
I too collect Frontiers. I missed two nice stockmans yesterday by $1.12, a black one and yellow one. I prefer these over Schrade knives. i have a Frontier muskrat that i bought at a flea market for $8.00 in the box. I am hoping to see those on the bay eventually. I could stand to have two or three more of these.:rolleyes:
 
They really have gone up. I have most of the jackmaster collection in the clampackages they sold for around $9 or $10 bucks in the stores where I found them, and I saw one of the yellow jackmaster fishing knives go for over $30 bucks last week. A year ago I backed out on a couple for $12 bucks cause I thought that was high. guess I should of bought then. oh well.
 
gradall5200 said:
They really have gone up. I have most of the jackmaster collection in the clampackages they sold for around $9 or $10 bucks in the stores where I found them, and I saw one of the yellow jackmaster fishing knives go for over $30 bucks last week. A year ago I backed out on a couple for $12 bucks cause I thought that was high. guess I should of bought then. oh well.
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Boy, I am glad to hear that. I bought a bunch last year. I found a hardware in the Rocky Mountains and bought the fish knives for $5.99, IIRC. The camp knives were $4.99, still in clampacks. When they get up to $50-$60 maybe I will sell them. :D
 
orvet said:
Boy, I am glad to hear that. I bought a bunch last year. I found a hardware in the Rocky Mountains and bought the fish knives for $5.99, IIRC. The camp knives were $4.99, still in clampacks. When they get up to $50-$60 maybe I will sell them. :D
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Any chance you'd consider parting with one of the yellow fish knives, I've got a few of the barlows in the clampack to trade. joel
 
I think you are going to find that they cycle up and down.When your buying there up, if your selling there down.Arnold
 
gradall5200
I actually bought several of the Barlows & one of the Daddy Barlows. I also got a #685 Jack knife, 3-1/8" closed. I have not found it in any of the catalogs from 1973 through 2004, at least not by that number.

I might trade for a couple old Ulster, Schrade or Camillus that has a good main blade & backspring, Sheepfoot or Hawkbill blades preferred. A clip point considered (esp. if large). I don't care what the handles or liners look like, or even if they are there. I am just interested in the blade & matching backspring. Something I can build a knife from.

My email in this forum doesn't work (don't ask.....long story) so you can email me at: dalervincent@comcast.net.

Dale
 
I stopped in a god-knows-how-old mom and pop tackle shop last year out in the country heading to a farm to hunt turkey. They had a fish bowl on the counter with 14 barlow knives in it with a little red sticky that said 80cents!!! Deep in dust I offered 50cents each, I bought them all. Turns out they had been sitting there since the fifties and the owner was glad to get rid of them. They were "new" but in really rough unused condition. That store probably had cans of pork-n-beans that were just as old, shame they aren't worth anything! I noticed quite an eclectic mix of hunting knives but didn't look at them closely. When I purposefully made a trip back to look at things closer the store was closed. Lesson...jump on an opportunity while it is available.
 
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