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Where do you find your vintage (antique) knives?

I know many of us techie collectors trade between each other and shop online but what other venues do you browse to find your vintage knives?
I get a lot of mine at gun/knife shows that I have tables at, hit estate sales when I can and head to antique malls with the small booths sometimes too. So how bout you?

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on April 21, 2012 at 18:28

Lee,

Now that is unique buying technique!!!! Let me know if you get that tattoo, I would love to see it even if it does not blink LOL

Lee Saunders said:

man...I love that Invicible. And David, your story about keeping the tang on your desk is great. I worked for the county for 30 yearss and I wish I did that.

Women collect a lot of things. Some of them collect almost everything. But few collect guns or knives, so when I meet a woman who is a 'collector' of antiques or collectibles I always bring up that I collect old knives. And when I was still collecting guns I let them know that too because I found that many had knives (especially) and guns (sometimes) that belonged to Dad or Grandad (or mom!) and they had no use for them. Bought a few that way.

When I could I used to hit antique stores and estate sales nearly every week. Our flea markets have pretty much all died off. I have gone to some pawn shops but never found too many that weren't hella expensive.

Now I go to our local Gun & Knife show 2x per year, stop at a yard sale if I see one, and mostly right now uy online. If anyone has knives for sale I am always interested especially in switchblades because they are so dang hard to find.

I think I will taattoo "I Buy Knives" on my forehead! Be cool if it blinked.

Permalink Reply by Lee Saunders on April 21, 2012 at 20:42

I've been meaning to tell people, recently I have bought a couple of knives (and spent a lot of time looking at knives) at AAPK. All About Pocket Knives. You guys probably already heard about it, but just in case one of you have missed it so far....check it out. They have Member Storesand some of them are really chock full of different types of knives.

New knives. Antique knives. Mostly folders but some guys have ridgids for sale too.

Definitely worth a few minutes of browing.

They have articles, research & price guides etc. Some of the same kind of stuff you can get here.

But it's always nice to have more knife places to look at and to shop at.

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