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Originally Posted by Bill Harsey
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Good point. The high prices come from the "originals" which if memory serves are mostly from the WW2 era.
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You're correct sir. The high prices are paid by collectors who are interested in them due to the daggers association with the FSSF during WW2. The dagger is incredibly rare in its original form, and therefore it fetches 1500+ dollars for an original. Anything FSSF has an incredible price tag on it, and the daggers are surely not an exception.
The current production knives are definitely much cheaper, but they do run in the few hundred dollar range if I remember correctly. I really only remember seeing one of the original daggers at a show, and it was priced around 1700 bucks.
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on the topic of collectors...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...=STRK:MEWAX:IT anything 101st from WW2 fetches tons of money now.