Cougfan2,
Yes there is a release, if you choose to go into this collecting with certain attitudes.
Do not go into this with the "Gotta-Haves".
Do go into this with the attitude of Preserving and Passing Forward.
Sometimes one has to be selfish, in order to preserve, pass forward, and protect the values, history, and sentiment of life.
i.e Some folks collect only Case knives from an era, such as from 1960-1970.
Sure, these have monetary value, what they also have are materials and craftsmanship from a time gone by.
Those that view these in a collection, even just pictures, will see grandparents, neighbors they grew up with, parents, that hunting trip, parents, and all sorts of things that are a part of their life and have sentimental meaning.
i.e Advertising knives.
Some choose to not collect Case, and other brands.
Instead the old knives that Feed&Seed Stores, Auto Parts Stores, Businesses used to give out free.
Sounds dumb, still I remember these, and it means something to me, that folks have collected, and preserved this part of my life's history.
In anything, it is a buyer's market.
What is someone willing to pay you for what you have?
I am known to carry a Case Peanut, Yellow Handle, with Chrome Vanadium blades, and a Barehead Slimline Trapper, in this set (yellow handle, CV blades)
I had a set of these two, along with a Mini-Trapper, Sodbuster Jr, the Big Stockman and Medium Stockman.
I had all but the Peanut off site. All these were destroyed by fire.
Now these and the Peanut, I can still get new.
New Peanut is about $35 at the local Feed&Seed store.
I lost that Peanut during tornado's and all the stuff I was doing.
Just a dumb old yellow knife to some folks.
Not to me.
Ian is dead now he was originally from South Africa, and lived in the UK.
He gave me that set, in Jamaica too many years ago.
I have never been to South Africa, and never will.
My Peanut has been, and has been in the UK, New Zealand and other places.
That knife has cut folks' seat belts, assisted in emergency first aid, been on hunting trips, and the folks are now gone. Fishing trips, in my pocket when I gave a lady away as her dad was passed, the birth of a baby,....
If that knife could talk...
Folks associate through me, and that Peanut so much.
I am the link to some to their kinfolks.
Sounds dumb, but if a 30 year lady wants me to whittle a hot dawg fork for her kid, with that knife or one like it - it is the link of her dad now passed doing that for her, and me doing for a grandkid, that never knew a grandpa.
Ian's gift, that Peanut, was one knife I did stuff with that young ladies grandpa.
That dove and quail on the mantle a taxidermist did, was the game her mom took and that Peanut was on the hunts.
Just me take...collect for other reasons besides the idea of making a profit of money.
The dividends of preserving and passing forward are greater.
