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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 . Last edited by katana; 4th April 2008 at 02:35 PM. |
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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
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Insane.....
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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! ![]() |
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Passion can lead to "buyers remorse"; I hope not in this case .
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Thanks Yannis,
for the explaination ![]() ![]() ![]() Regards David |
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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. |
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edit for double posting
Last edited by Yannis; 5th April 2008 at 09:04 AM. |
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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?” ![]() |
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