Will modern fighters be collectable?

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SPHayes

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Do you think that the knives that are currently being used and carried in Iraq and Afghanistan will ever carry the same collectablity as the knives carried in earlier conflicts? I look at the prices commanded by a Vietnam era Gerber MKII or a WWII Randall with documented provenance and wonder. I'm a knife nut and have brought some fairly nice knives with me on deployment. I have my EK SF-3, Randall 14, new production MKII, Ranger RD-6, along with a Airforce Pilots knife with me. I'm not a High-speed operator but I do carry and use all of these knives on a rotating basis. On rare ocasions, I bump into other Soldiers with nice knives, but the bulk of guys I see just carry cheap folders or multi-tools. Would it be crazy to write a letter and take a photo of each knife in theater to keep with them. I plan on passing the knives on to my two sons. Thoughts?
 
Always take pictures, better to preserve memories in print and picture than have fuzzy stories down the road.
 
SPHayes said:
Would it be crazy to write a letter and take a photo of each knife in theater to keep with them. I plan on passing the knives on to my two sons.
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Future collectablity is a gamble, but it would hardly be crazy to document for your sons what those knives mean to you.
 
Yep, documenting the knife's history may well up it's desirability in some future time. Seems to work out well for those folks on Antiques Road Show.:D
 
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