Blade’s Guide to Knives & Their Values

✍ Scribed by Steve Shackleford

• Publisher: Krause Publications
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 578
• Edition: 7
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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!