Polish saber a gem or im robed

serdar · 11th April 2025, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by awdaniec666

You are and will be out of the discussion here and in coming posts for me, because all you can do is to buy stuff - you are not capable of doing more at this moment and therefore I will not discuss anything with you any more.

I wrote my reply on this post to conclude the mistakes made here for coming generations of collectors. I quoted your weird stuff above just as a memento of possible human characters linked to spending money without knowledge.

This is a forum and not your personal advice centre with stroking sessions. Accept that not everyone likes your overpriced toys and won´t stay silent.

Awdaniec
You sir either need to grow up and come out of your mom's basement, or?
Did i ask you to coment?
My expensive overpriced toys?
Awdaniec what are you doing on antique weapons forum?? Offcourse antique sword are expensive? And they are toys for you?
You sir with all my respect for you have a big problems, mine is not to determine what, but yours is.

And is that wrong if i asked people to coment only if they know particular item and subject? I tried to tighten search and not write bible of unnecesary coments, on the end i asked for help, like im always ready to help anyone with anything, is it wrong to ask for specific help?
But you try to input me that im arogant and i demand!? Who am i to demand? Where did i demand, i ASKED for specific information, i didnt know that that is forbiden...

But you from start put your self as a karabela expert and karabela god, and got offended for nothing, lets not forget that on that post you wrote im quoteing you "thats it for me im not writing anything anymore" and here you are, comenting aldo you said you wont, celebrating my mistake, writeing and focusing on the money aspect, ask your self why?

(I was harsh only on one person on that karabela post and that was jim mcdugall (sorry if i misspeled name), i was harsh with my writing on him, and if he cares im apologizing him for that, he didnt deserve that harsh writing)

And please, let this be, if you want, it is no problem ignore my posts, any how i didnt ask you for nothing, neither i will after this, but let as dont downgrade this forum by our writings, there are nice posts here, and lots of information, let as not poison that.

Lee · 11th April 2025, 11:51 PM

I think that the time has come that moderatorial duty requires that I close this thread.

Obviously, the more knowledge an aspiring collector has about their chosen field, the better. The more unquestionably genuine swords of a type that one has seen up close, the better they will become at separating the wheat from the chaff - and it does not hurt to have also seen and handled known fakes. I had the benefit of being along for most of the museum research trips involved in the research for Swords of the Viking Age. That gave me a large mental database and a healthy degree of suspicion, but often, as I proceeded with collecting, there were offerings that I could never be sure of. If I was 'afraid of something,' I would avoid it, even at the risk of missing a particularly important example. Even so, denouncing most of what I increasingly found in the market, I have made tens of thousands of dollars in mistakes buying fakes over some forty years. As has been said, 'tuition."

There have always been collectors much more financially well off than myself. In one failed attempt at an Alexandria Arsenal marked sword at Christie's, I 'ran the successful bidder up' the price of a minivan - a significant amount for me, driving a 7 year old machine at the time. The successful bidder - a collector of seriously good taste and monumental importance across several fields - was revealed years later. The price of a minivan would have been, to him, about as perceptible as would be a drop of mist falling on my wrist.

I did succeed on another Alexandria Arsenal marked sword several years later. The day after the auction my agent called relating that he had been called by the auction house with an offer of serious profit. Someone intending to bid seriously had mismarked his calendar. My lucky day? Karma?

11th April 2025, 11:51 PM	#2
Lee EAAF Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Upstate New York, USA Posts: 937	Thread closed I think that the time has come that moderatorial duty requires that I close this thread. Obviously, the more knowledge an aspiring collector has about their chosen field, the better. The more unquestionably genuine swords of a type that one has seen up close, the better they will become at separating the wheat from the chaff - and it does not hurt to have also seen and handled known fakes. I had the benefit of being along for most of the museum research trips involved in the research for Swords of the Viking Age. That gave me a large mental database and a healthy degree of suspicion, but often, as I proceeded with collecting, there were offerings that I could never be sure of. If I was 'afraid of something,' I would avoid it, even at the risk of missing a particularly important example. Even so, denouncing most of what I increasingly found in the market, I have made tens of thousands of dollars in mistakes buying fakes over some forty years. As has been said, 'tuition." There have always been collectors much more financially well off than myself. In one failed attempt at an Alexandria Arsenal marked sword at Christie's, I 'ran the successful bidder up' the price of a minivan - a significant amount for me, driving a 7 year old machine at the time. The successful bidder - a collector of seriously good taste and monumental importance across several fields - was revealed years later. The price of a minivan would have been, to him, about as perceptible as would be a drop of mist falling on my wrist. I did succeed on another Alexandria Arsenal marked sword several years later. The day after the auction my agent called relating that he had been called by the auction house with an offer of serious profit. Someone intending to bid seriously had mismarked his calendar. My lucky day? Karma?