Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values

Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values

Author: Steve Shackleford

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2010-01-05

Total Pages: 576

ISBN-13: 9781440203879

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The world's most comprehensive roadmap to cutlery, Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values contains expert analysis, appraisals and lifetimes of research from the foremost authorities on antique, custom/handmade, factory, international, club, commemorative, period, and frontier knives, and all mainstream cutlery genres. Expanded with new collector information, how-to stories, photographs and other images, historical background, vintage and contemporary maker listings and more, Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values provides you with inside details, values and other tantalizing tidbits to maximize enjoyment of your knife hobby. Identify, date and appraise virtually any knife with updated value guides and thousands of illustrations and descriptions. Decipher the values of knives from many of the world?s greatest custom makers—living and dead—via the totally overhauled and expanded custom/handmade section. Learn all about collecting knives: how to grade, buy and sell, and care for knives; how to recognize fakes; explore the latest blade steels and handle materials; build and maintain a collection; and a whole lot more!


Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values

Blade's Guide to Knives & Their Values

Author: Steve Shackleford

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2005-10-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873499132

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Simply, the definitive identification and price guide for collectible cutlery from around the world! Book jacket.


The Standard Knife Collector's Guide

The Standard Knife Collector's Guide

Author: Ron Stewart

Publisher:

Published: 2006-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781574325201

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With hundreds of manufacturers of cutlery listed, this easy-to-use format allows the collector to become an expert in evaluating or appraising knives by using the RBR evaluation scales. (Antiques & Collectibles)


Official Price Guide to Collector Knives

Official Price Guide to Collector Knives

Author: C. Houston Price

Publisher: House of Collectibles

Published: 2008-04-08

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 0375722807

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Provides descriptions and prices for collectible knives, along with information about collecting the item, different types and brands, main components, and factors that can affect its value.


Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values

Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values

Author: Bernard Levine

Publisher:

Published: 2000-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780873419451

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This new, expanded edition provides everything one needs to know to successfully collect knives. Includes updated information on brands, models, and overall cutlery history, fully updated prices for more than 1,500 knives, detailed coverage of the important aspects of collecting, and sections on popular collectible folding knives and fixed blade knives. Illustrations.


Shooter's Bible Guide to Knives

Shooter's Bible Guide to Knives

Author: Roger Eckstine

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-04-20

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 1620873095

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The new Shooter’s Bible Guide to Knives sets the standard for comprehensive publications by carrying on the Shooter’s Bible tradition of bringing together more products and information than any other source. With photographs and descriptions of more than 400 knives, readers are treated to product highlights from major manufacturers and custom knife makers. This book brings you from the blacksmith shop to high tech influential designers with insights into blade steel, locking mechanisms, and handle materials. When it comes to knives, this book is the source for the products and the passion.


Gun Trader's Guide to Collectible Knives

Gun Trader's Guide to Collectible Knives

Author: Mike Robuck

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1629143200

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The Gun Trader’s Guide is the standard reference for collectors, curators, dealers, shooters, and gun enthusiasts, and now is extending their influence to collectible knives. Focusing mainly on old and out of production knives, the Gun Trader’s Guide to Collectible Knives is the ideal gift for any knife enthusiast looking to start a collecting of their own. Parts of the guide will focus on the following: • How and where to start your collection • The value of knives and how to determine their value • How to work knife shows • How to care for older knives Each knife featured will have its own short description and will be divided by grade (very good, good, fine, etc.). Fitting in with the Gun Trader’s Guide series, this guide will be updated every few years to accommodate the changing market. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.


Hank Reinhardt's Book of Knives

Hank Reinhardt's Book of Knives

Author: Hank Reinhardt

Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises

Published: 2012-06-01

Total Pages: 189

ISBN-13: 1618249460

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Definitive and compulsively readable¾an illustrated guide to the use in knifefighting and beyond of contemporary knives by long-time Blade columnist and master weaponsmith, Hank Reinhardt. Deadlier than the club, more ubiquitous than the sword, the knife is the universal edged weapon of all humankind. As our society has grown more advanced, and more reliant on technology, there has been an increased interest in the weapons of the past, and this sharp-edged guide to the use of the knife will whet the appetite of expert and layman alike. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).


Collecting Case Knives

Collecting Case Knives

Author: Steve Pfeiffer

Publisher: Krause Publications

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781440202384

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Feast your eyes on the craftsmanship and quality that is synonymous with Case pocket knives with this one-of-a-kind guide. The only full-color book focused solely on the work of W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co., this book delves into Cases 120-year history and provides you with the defining details for hundreds upon hundreds of knives. In this historically rich guide, you'll discover 800 full-color photos, current values for hundreds of pocket knives considered the most popular among collector, and a potpourri of information about methods for creating knives, quirks of the pattern numbering systems, tang samplings, types of blade steels and knife shields, as well as: Identifying and pricing details for prized knives including Pattern 20 Peanut, highly popular 54 Pattern Trapper, Pattern 72 Bulldog and Buffalo, and Pattern 97 Shark Tooth A showcase of the different types of natural and synthetic handle materials used to create Case knives, including bone, stag, pearl, wood, family and colorful celluloid, plastic and metal Whether you received your Case knife as a gift, inherited if from a family member or simply chose to purchase your own, you will enjoy the depth of details, exquisite photographs, and intriguing historical information contained in this, the only full-color book devoted to the legendary W.R. Case & Sons Cutlery Co.