Why the price?

Nasty

Nasty

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Completed ebay item 2248853979

Why did this go for over $260 :confused:
 
From looking at some of his other purchases he might just be a pacific war collector.

I like the knife, the guard it awfully thick though.
 
that is the stupidest looking thing I have ever seen, the "gunk" is probably epoxy holding the broken blade on...

$260? If I owned that thing, seriously, I would throw it out - its so gay looking it would bother my OCD.... :p
 
There were three guys bidding at that level...
 
The other bidders, from quick looks at their previous purchases, seem to be militaria collectors. Primarily collecters of cutlery.

if people made sense, they wouldn't be people.

My wife can't figure out why I buy expensive recreations of old knives and use $10 mora's and $50 kuhks to hunt and camp with.
 
Speaking of $50 knives...Yvsa turned me on to a deal. A brand new in box Marbles Expert II. One hell of a knife for $50!

A great big public THANK YOU to my Edutsi!
 
Theater knives have been knocking up higher prices during the last few years. They are privately made knives, produced by amatures during wartime, and the best are those examples made by the soldiers themselves. It is hard to authenticate these, but after you handle enough of these you can usually make a reasonable call based on things like materials, condition, or design.

Here is a similar example made from a US model 1904 hospital bolo.
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Old Kabars and the Cattarragus 225Q aka Quartermaster Knife are also high dollar these days, especially if there's provenance!

Nasty you saw mine and for the shape it's in I got it dirt cheap. I think the guy felt sorry for me.;)
And I think everyone oughta own one of the old Cat's. It may just be 1095 but it's 1095 that's 50-60 years old!:D
 
Everyone i know seems to sell their junk for a mint and make a killing on purchases. . . there has to be at least SOME poor fools getting it wrong!
 
a_punker said:
Everyone i know seems to sell their junk for a mint and make a killing on purchases. . . there has to be at least SOME poor fools getting it wrong!
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Punker, I've bought some junk but no one made a killing off me although they might've made a handsome profit.;) :rolleyes: :p

I like different knives from different lands and sometimes it's hard to find pristine pieces for halfway decent prices.
I have a couple of smaller Moroccan Flyssa's with the chipped wood handle's and scabbards. The scabbards are usually what takes the hit. One is missing the entire front half and the other one has been repaired with what looks like dyed plastic wood.
I gave less than $20.00 each for them but both have beautiful hand forged and brass inlaid blades.
Cheap knives for a cheap collector.;) And I may be able to make a small profit when I sell them.
Not all collectors knives are high dollar.
 
:confused: Here's a question. How do you tell the difference between a "theater knife" and something that came out of HS Metal Shop in 1950? or 1960? I saw similar knives being made in school, some from steel stock and some from old WW II bayonets. Old? Sort of. But not militaria. I've asked eBay sellers how THEY know, and never got an answer.
 
Thomas Linton said:
:confused: Here's a question. How do you tell the difference between a "theater knife" and something that came out of HS Metal Shop in 1950? or 1960?
I saw similar knives being made in school, some from steel stock and some from old WW II bayonets. Old? Sort of. But not militaria. I've asked eBay sellers how THEY know, and never got an answer.
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Tom it's difficult but I think part of the general consensus is that the theatre knives were mostly handled or rehandled with material easily found in the theatre such as aluminum, clear Lucite, different colored bakelite and similar.
The knives we made in school were all handled with poured molded aluminum as we had to learn sand casting as part of the exercise. And we didn't have access to the theatre materials as such.
 
Unfortunately, I personnaly witnessed the production of a couple of dozen knives that had handles made of various combinations of plastic, metal, and leather. Forty years later, they would look pretty "vintage." Some of the colored plastic used would be a tip-off to the knowledgable collector, but the aluminum, steel and leather used would have a nice patina by now -- pretty close over all to the "theater" knives that are always being offered on eBay.
 
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