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#1  Chuck Stewart Switchblade Kris Bladed Custom.  Mint knife in maker made coffin box.   Silk-lined, hand carved coffin box, has a japanned brass escutcheon topped with a hand carved walrus tusk ivory skull.  Knife is totally fileworked.  Handles are heavy, thick malachite, with a malachite release button.  Front bolster is embellished with the maker's 25 year Knifemaker's Guild pin.  Action is very crisp and tight.  This knife was featured in one of the knife annuals, but I don't have a complete set to reference it.  Measures 11 3/4" in a 13 5/8" box.

$4800

#2  Chuck Stewart Switchblade Elephant Toe Custom.  This nearly perfect knife is the LAST knife that Chuck Stewart made.  It actually was finished having handles installed by Judy Gottage for the the customer.  The originally intended handlers are the elephant ivory with amber spacers pictured.  Installed handles are colorful bark Mastodon ivory.

ALL FOUR blades on this knife are sprung.  Each handle has the same release mechanism  Not every blade on this knife opens fully as the maker didn't get to finish the knife.

Original handle projects included in sale.  This very massive knife has some minor blade scuffing from liners.  Measures 10 1/4" overall and 1 3/8" thick! 

$4200

  #3  Shur-Snap Master Fish Knife.  Super rare in the sheath.  Blade has some sharpening marks but great toning.  Handles are lightly shrunk but no cracks.  Spring set, function, and ride height are perfect.  Sheath just has the scuff marks shown.  4 15/16" closed, 8 3/4" open.

EXTREMELY RARE with the sheath

$600

#4  Italian double spring souvenir with pouch.  Springs and catches are perfect.  Handles have some cracks around pins on both handles.  2 1/4" closed, 3 3/4 open.

$225

#5  Pressbutton Knife with jigged bone handles.  Handles have no cracks, but some idiot used the butt as a hammer and chipped up the bone and dented the liners and backspring.  Blade is about 3/16" short.  Spring is strong with no ride up.  4 7/8" closed, 8 1/4" open.

$350

#6  Ribi roller bolster.  Black horn handles have one crack on front scale.  Unsharpened, with super action, super tight, double-click spring closing.  Spring set and ride height are good.  4 3/8" closed, 7 5/8" open.

$160

#7  Pastor Aleman spring pull similar to a Schrade pullball.  Blade is much different in that it locks and to release it is pulled forward from the frame to release.  Rear pull then is used to retain blade closed.  Black plastic handles with no cracks or shrinkage.  4 3/8" closed, 7 5/8" open.

$200

#10  Rizutto Floating Guard.  Could be used as a baby rattle.  Handling marks on plastic handles but no cracks.  Fast and no ride up.  But, if there was it would be protected by ride up prohibitor on rear of frame.  4 3/4" closed, 8 1/2" open.

$50

#12  Stiletto Roller Bolster.  Walnut handles with no cracks or dings.  Bayonet grind with a nail nick.  Double click, nice strong, and tight.  Spring set and ride height are good.  4 7/8" closed, 8 5/8" open.

$150

#13  Stiletto Roller Bolster.  Decent black horn with some figuring on front scale, no cracks.  Spring is strong and blade is tight, with no ride up.  5 7/8" closed, 10 3/4" open.

$180

#14  Floating Guard low quality.  Blade has stone marks, handles have shrunk some.  Functional with no ride up.  Insides are freshly rusty, looks like from water.  Spring set and ride height are good.  4 3/4" closed, 8 1/2" open.

$40

#15  GIANT Wandy Inox Roller Bolster.  Blade has been sharpened and the very tip has been broken off.  Black figural horn handle front and half black, half blonde horn rear.  Handles have some mild layer separation and one small worm mark.  Blade is crooked (probably when tipped).  Spring set and ride height are good.  Backstrap and spring are darkened.  7" closed, 13" open.

$300

#16  Unmarked Picklock.  Bayonet grind, blade is loosey-goosey when open.  Black plastic handles have no cracks.  Spring set and ride height are good.  4" closed, 7 1/8" open.

$110

#17  Stiletto Roller Bolster.  Bayonet grind with no sharpening marks, just dirty.  Stag handles with no cracks, rear handle is nice and bumpy.  Spring set and ride height are good.  4 7/8" closed, 8 5/8" open.

$165

#20  Italian version of a Mexican Lucite.  Blade is unsharpened and only carries a Stainless and Rostfrei stamps.  Handles are black plastic with raised dragons, silver and gold.  4 1/4" closed, 7 1/4" open.

$100

#21  Mexican mini

$180

#22

$160

#25  Flylock

$140