Hello all,
I have been asked along with Skip to moderate this forum.
So let me tell you something about myself and my collecting addiction.
I started around 13 years ago, ( Back when they were cheap ), i couldn't really afford the daggers back then. I decided i wanted to get into these, so i beggged a few collectors to tell me a little about the German Daggers. After about 2 hours at a show i found my very first German dagger ( Eickhorn Army ). I bought it for 125.00 and i still have it today. As time went on, i was able to buy more and more. I know this sounds like everyone's collecting story, but there is a twist. Well anyway, i ended my first year with 4 daggers. I realized i would grow very old before i had a collection. What i decided to do was buy-n-sell !. What i found at the time was " Lodge " swords were selling for 20 - 25 dollars each, well i went to a antique show the followning Saturday and found thewy sold them for 100 plus. Starting the next week i bought all i could find. well 5 years later i had a personnal collection of over 500 swords , i know i sold over 500 during this time also.
While doing all this i manage to get a nice 60 dagger collection going. Around 1998 i sold my collection os swords to a collector in England and then devoted all my collecting to daggers.
During my 13 years, i have bought and sold over 1200 daggers, and i have today a collection of over 300 daggers. I don't care for anyone style, except " REAL ". I collect Dress daggers of all nations, not just German daggers.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to email me. I will get back to you usually under 24 hours.,
Last thing, I have my own website ( Reference Only ) for Dagger Collecting. www.worlddaggers.com
There will be over 500 daggers on this site when im finished with it. So please send any dagger and text you might wish to have published
Thanks for reading all this
Bob
I have been asked along with Skip to moderate this forum.
So let me tell you something about myself and my collecting addiction.
I started around 13 years ago, ( Back when they were cheap ), i couldn't really afford the daggers back then. I decided i wanted to get into these, so i beggged a few collectors to tell me a little about the German Daggers. After about 2 hours at a show i found my very first German dagger ( Eickhorn Army ). I bought it for 125.00 and i still have it today. As time went on, i was able to buy more and more. I know this sounds like everyone's collecting story, but there is a twist. Well anyway, i ended my first year with 4 daggers. I realized i would grow very old before i had a collection. What i decided to do was buy-n-sell !. What i found at the time was " Lodge " swords were selling for 20 - 25 dollars each, well i went to a antique show the followning Saturday and found thewy sold them for 100 plus. Starting the next week i bought all i could find. well 5 years later i had a personnal collection of over 500 swords , i know i sold over 500 during this time also.
While doing all this i manage to get a nice 60 dagger collection going. Around 1998 i sold my collection os swords to a collector in England and then devoted all my collecting to daggers.
During my 13 years, i have bought and sold over 1200 daggers, and i have today a collection of over 300 daggers. I don't care for anyone style, except " REAL ". I collect Dress daggers of all nations, not just German daggers.
If anyone has any questions please feel free to email me. I will get back to you usually under 24 hours.,
Last thing, I have my own website ( Reference Only ) for Dagger Collecting. www.worlddaggers.com
There will be over 500 daggers on this site when im finished with it. So please send any dagger and text you might wish to have published
Thanks for reading all this
Bob
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