I've had requests for "are there any knives in the Sawman Estate?" So, I and his wife and a trusted friend of his gather all of them up today and I brought all home. 1 box the widow says are valuable as she got them out of a safe. Other box is called not valuable as they were not kept in a safe. I saw military knives in the not valuable box. To me, not a knife person, there are a lot of them. How does one determine value for purposes of selling for the estate? Ones he carried in the military often have his initials and sometimes his rank on the sheath and sometimes on the metal. To me, such provenance could either reduce the value or enhance the value. (Note: I did find his Trident pin and Seal patches in an ammo can marked "MISC"...all that can contents are being kept by his wife.
Somethings are easy...a new looking SOG tomahawk I found on Amazon for $33.18, so that I'd probably put out for $25 (or buy it myself to carry in my Mule). So I guess I start IDing them and looking for ads on the Internet. I don't want to inadvertently either rip off a buyer or give away a valuable piece to someone not being honest with me. I would think anything marked "CHINA" would be cheap. Any advice would be appreciated.
Somethings are easy...a new looking SOG tomahawk I found on Amazon for $33.18, so that I'd probably put out for $25 (or buy it myself to carry in my Mule). So I guess I start IDing them and looking for ads on the Internet. I don't want to inadvertently either rip off a buyer or give away a valuable piece to someone not being honest with me. I would think anything marked "CHINA" would be cheap. Any advice would be appreciated.