Russian Daggers

[Chris Lee]

Gentlemen,
I have the opportunity to purchase several WW2 era Russian daggers. They are in good condition and I believe they are army and navy dress daggers. They are not dated as far as I could see. Iwould like to find out what kind of value they hold and if there is a strong buyers market for them like there is for German daggers. I do not have photos of them.

[NavyFCO]

It depends on what the seller means by "WW2 era". If they are actually WW2, they are quite valuable (I haven't looked for one for sale, but I'd take a guess that they're running around $300-$400 nowadays, but I could be wrong). If they're post war (I'm selling a gorgeous 1955 dated one right now on eBay) they're worth about $185-$250 depending on the person buying. Are they like collecting German daggers? Not in the least... I don't know of a single collector of "only" Soviet daggers though there are plenty of collectors of German daggers. They aren't really that big of a field, honestly... Most people I know of own maybe one or two as examples, and some people own a couple nice high end ones as examples.

If you can post up more information, I could probabky give you some more un-general info about them.

Dave

[Chris Lee]

Daggers

Dave,
Thanks for the info.
I won`t be able to get the daggers until after the 6th of Feb. When I saw them I really thought they were cool, not having seen Russian daggers before. Its not my collecting field, and I hate to pass on any WW2 stuff. If I invest in them I just wanted to know what would be a fair price to offer the seller and not get taken in the process.

[NavyFCO]

Chris:

Collectrussia has a selection of daggers, so you can get a general feel of prices and see photos of them. Being that he's a dealer and selling "at retail" (as dealers are supposed to) I'd say that you could probably reduce the price by around 25% if buying from a private party.

http://www.collectrussia.com/showcat.htm?cat=SWRDDAGR

You can also search ePay for them. (Yes, a plug for mine, it's the one closing in ~4 hours with belt...)

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...=soviet+dagger

Dave

[Kozlov]

Blimey, there's some banditry going on on that "daggers" page isn't there...

I know where those SVT bayonets with the blued blades come from and they are 60GBP a pop.

The Shaskas all come from a contact of mine in the US too...

And people like to slag Bob Gowen off for such things...