What type of daggers do you collect?

Combat Relics · Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 161

I agree! And this is a great example of how a forum should work!

A polite comment on an aspect of my statement , which I follow up in the same manner. No argument, no attack, ... just progress and accomplishment.

That point of view is valid, and it does change the dynamic of my observation.

I believe that when such questions are asked it also reveals a collector's need for guidance beyond that question.

There is a need, for a better approach to collecting. I hope that guys read all my postings. I am trying to advise helpfully in almost every post.

It is not only the 'new collector', but perhaps also some guys with experience, who can use good insight into techniques and procedures.

We all start alone, and we develop our individual 'collecting style'. It is very likely we think and innovate too little, and take the easiest route too much. Along the route, we encounter some ugly situations and surprises, and this also shapes our thinking.
That seems a natural progression. So, picking up 'tips and tricks' in the forum, is very useful to speeding us toward more effective collecting techniques.

A forum, as I have stated before, is both a place to collectively share knowledge, and to innovate forward together. Here, an advanced concept can connect the dots, like a revelation.

It is incumbent upon each of us, to forge forward alone, as well.

In the end we are responsible, for a campaign of acquisition and our own investing decisions. So we need the collecting philosophy to be with us wherever we are...a show, a shop, visiting a fellow collector.

A little focused and logical thought, a quick keyword search, books, forums (Including the good info on 'other forums') and we have some basis for a method. A method can save us from expensive mistakes, and make for a profitable investing experience.

Let us hope, that eventually enough wisdom is written in our forum, the postings of things to be vetted are not so much 'is it any good?' (As is often seen elsewhere on the web), but more discussion of the pertinent properties and features that make it good or bad!

That sort of discussion helps everyone gain useful knowledge. It is not just somebody wanting help with buying a single item he knows little about.

A scenario I don't see as an advantage, or of benefit to us here, can often be found on another forum. We see the worst 'JUNK', show up pictured in a posting. The forum member found this thing somewhere, and asks 'is it original'.

My first thought is usually, 'poor fool! Can't he tell in a nanosecond?' Then I realize that this guy is in real trouble in this collecting field.

OK guys the questions of the day. (These will take us off axis, but conversations often do change direction.)

1. What, would you estimate, is the percentage of replica, versus original relics, in Third Reich Related Memorabilia?

2. Does anybody here, believe this is an area of collecting, which you can approach casually?

3. Is there any big idea or technique, you can reveal to us, which we should all have in our collecting toolbox?

The Thicket · Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 96 Location: Right Here.

Many very valid points, The new collector is faced with a mountain of opinion's, thoughts and facts. How dose one remove the twist so one can see the forest through the trees?

There is no easy answer, thats the facts, so if you use logic many times this can help you.

Learn all you can then, think out side the box; I have always said that the Germans never made any of these items with YOU a collector 50-60-70 years after a war that the German's were 100% sure they were going to win thought about thier work product.. When you think that way about imperfections that are not found on the ONE and ONLY example shown, can aid you in viewing items in a differant light.

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