Blade’s Guide to Knives & Their Values
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. You will find inside details, values, and other tantalizing tidbits to maximize the 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!
Product details
- Publisher : Krause Publishing Inc
- Publication date : January 1, 2010
- Edition : 7th
- Language : English
- Print length : 576 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1440203873
- Item Weight : 2.26 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 1.25 x 10.75 inches
