Nice Knife ........How Much ????

[katana]

Hi All,
this recently ended on eBay ... not so certain of origins, has elements of the Grecian type of this form of dagger.

So, if this price is right for this dagger.... why is it so special

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=009

Thanks for all comments.

Regards David

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[Dom]

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Dom

[katana]

I have just checked the winning bidder....and he's from Greece. I do know that if this is a genuinely old Greek knife they are relatively rare .... but at this price

[Battara]

Insane.....

[Yannis]

Few months ago I asked the forum why a native North American knife went so high in Ebay. You, my friends told me that they are rare and much wanted from collectors.

The same here. It is a genuine Cretan knife of 19th century in excellent condition and two Greek collectors wanted it very much. This is not a typical price but a result of passion!

[Rick]

Passion can lead to "buyers remorse"; I hope not in this case .

[katana]

Thanks Yannis,
for the explaination . Unfortunately, I described this knife as possibly Grecian when I should has said Cretan Afterall you ID'd my Cretan knife ....although it was no where near the excellent condition of this one.

Regards David

[Jim McDougall]

Originally Posted by Yannis

Few months ago I asked the forum why a native North American knife went so high in Ebay. You, my friends told me that they are rare and much wanted from collectors.

The same here. It is a genuine Cretan knife of 19th century in excellent condition and two Greek collectors wanted it very much. This is not a typical price but a result of passion!

And a passion well placed indeed! These really are beautiful knives, and I recognized it immediately....Thank you Yannis!!!

All the very best,
Jim

[CharlesS]

This one is surely a good and a nice one, but not as good as they can get, and this one is 19th or very early 20th Cent., not 18th.

These are currently being reproduced and will sometimes show up on Ebay. From a distance...or bad pic...they look just like the old ones, but a quick glance at their very thin blades gives them away.

[Yannis]

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[Yannis]

Originally Posted by CharlesS

This one is surely a good and a nice one, but not as good as they can get, and this one is 19th or very early 20th Cent., not 18th.

In 18th and early 19th cent. the Cretan knife had other form. It is almost as good as you can get. I have seen only few better than this for different reasons. There are thousands in bad condition or lower quality.

Originally Posted by CharlesS

These are currently being reproduced and will sometimes show up on Ebay. From a distance...or bad pic...they look just like the old ones, but a quick glance at their very thin blades gives them away.

Yes, a thin blade is a sure sign of new piece but the opposite is not true. Thickness is not a sure sign of older blades. It is difficult to tell all the characteristics of an old piece in few words. Quality of the work, for example, is almost sure sign of an old piece, but not the opposite, again.

[Yannis]

A joke I heard recently

An Athenian collector goes to a remote village in Crete and he sees a man wearing a fine antique knife in his belt. With excitement the collector ask the man to sell his knife.
“No” replies the man.
The collector offers him more and more money but the Cretan refuse it. Finally the rich Athenian offers his bright golden watch to the Cretan for the knife.
The Cretan says. “Look my friend. Think of me. I go to the cafe and I drink a liter of raki and someone talk a bad word for me or my family. I have to reply. What I 'll say, a quarter past ten?”