February 20, 2005
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The Most Beautiful Knife in the World
Anyway, I think so. It is around nine inches overall, sharp as hell, handmade, but no maker’s marks. The handle material is azure/malachite (the blue-green), one of my favorite rocks; the red is coral, I think the dark stuff is tiger-eye.
I got it at my last knife show in one of the best deals I ever made. I got this, plus a Buck 112 (similar to the classic 110 but smaller), and two Schrade lockbacks (again, much like the Buck 110), all used. I won’t say what I paid for the lot, but I sold the Schrades for more than I paid for all four, so the two I am keeping basically cost me nothing.
I showed it to a knifemaker who was at the show. He was very impressed and said that if he owned it, he would not sell it. My best guess is that it might fetch $300-500.
(credit–thanks to Kathy the webgoddess for taking the pic and posting it)
Comments (2)
That is a beautiful knife.
Looks like a skinning knife. I know something about skinning, though basically a city boy who yearned for the great outdoors. I skinned a squirrel once. Musta took me close to an hour. I didn’t know nothin’ ’bout pulling the skin. Boiled him for over an hour and he was still tough. Like I say, I was a city boy, who stayed outdoors from sunup to sundown. Never had a skinnin’ knife as good as that one, though. My knives were for mumbly peg. I bet I could have beat you at that.