Well guys,
I do appreciate your well wishes for the show. They seem to have worked for me at least.
This morning when I arrived at the show two hours early, there were only a handful of people there, but who is the first person I see but Charlie, trading knives out of the back of his truck!
I knew then and there that it was going to be tough to get ahead of Charlie. He was primed and loaded for bear.
I walked around to the front of the building where we had to inner. Well, we couldn't enter until 10 o'clock so about eight of us, to begin with, started trading knives under the awning out of the rain. I spotted this knife and started drooling.
The guy sold it to me so he wouldn't drowned, kind of in self-defense.

I paid him and was staring at the treasure in my hand when Charlie walked around the corner, not two minutes later.
Charlie said, "All right, what did you beat me to?"
I said, "Charlie you're going to hate me."
Then I showed it to him............................................................Charlie is (of course) such a gentleman that he congratulated me & then he drooled on my knife too! It was pretty wet when we got done admiring it. I hope it doesn't rust.
I have been looking for a 2OT of any type and this is a very nice version with waterfall celluloid and a coping blade. The first I have seen like it.
It sort of made my show & there are still 2 full days left!

Dale