At the risk of buying more knives and incurring the wraith of my "demonstrably better half" I stopped at one of the local antique shops while the phone people were trying to figure out while she was getting music playing through the phone when she was playing one of her games on it. Checked the vendors and didn't see anything new until the owner pointed to a box sitting on a counter and told me that they had just arrived and he hadn't had a chance to go through them. Said there were mostly new knives in it.
In the box was a couple of new KA-BAR mk2's and a similar Case along with a couple Case folders;a Marbles made in Pakistan and a couple others of questionable heritage. And then there were these................
I picked the 3 Gerbers out and another from a company called,"CFK Cutlery Co." Damascus blade;horn handles;some file work;probably Indian or Pakistani but I liked it. Asked him what he wanted for all four of them and he mumbled something about researching them so I said OK and let me know when you do and give me a price.As I started to walk out he gave them a brief look and said,"$175" and then as I continued to walk he said,"How about a hundred and fifty for all of them?" SOLD!
With tax they came to $159. Think I did all right today and my wife wasn't TOO aggravated!