"Missing" knives/bayonets from last move

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Just a heads up if anyone comes across these. Please drop me a line. They are probably in the Maryland area but can't swear to that.

Also, I would NOT have Affiliated Transportation Systems (ATS) , Inc out of Lawton OK handle your next move if you can help it!!!!!!

All of these knives and bayonets were gathered up in my house and mysteriously never were put on the inventory sheet and have since disappearred.

I'm out about $3k as it stands now. Police report has been filed so I may get some help if you run into the lot of them.

Swedish bayonet for M96
Japanese Training bayonet
Japanese Training bayonet
Japanese bayonet, Jinsen Arsenal, with leather frog
Japanese bayonet, Tokyo Arsenal Serial Number- 997322
Japanese bayonet
Japanese bayonet
Japanese bayonet, “last ditch model”, Serial Number 686572
Japanese bayonet
Hk91 bayonet
Turkish Mauser bayonet
k98 bayonet
M1 Garand bayonet, mint
Mosin Nagant M91 bayonet
LF&C WWI Trench knife with sheath
Bagwell bowie “Hell’s Belle” knife model
Ontario knife M16 bayonet
CRKT Polkowski Kasper
Becker Knife and Tool BK9 with custom kydex sheath from Sheath Mechanic and micarta grips
Italian Carcano Bayonet
Italian Carcano Bayonet
Italian Carcano Bayonet, with leather frog
Yugoslavian 48 bayonet
Beretta M-9 “Defender of Freedom” Knife in the glass box
Uncle Henry 153 knife, numbered
Schrade Sharpfinger knife

Thanks,
 
Ow!

Sorry to hear about them. Look at the pawn shops in the area you came from. Odds are the guy that took them dumped the whole lot for next to nothing as a "box from grampaw's attic" at the pawn shop.

Was that an Ontario Bagwell or a hand-crafted Bill Bagwell (please say it wasn't) Bowie?
 
This is really unfortunate. Sadly, since many of the blades are common or lack any serial numbers or readily identifiable markings you are probably SOL. At best maybe five from your list are recoverable.

Let the blade dealers at area gun shows as well as any pawn shops know about the ones that can be readily IDed by number or other feature.
 
hso- it was an Ontario, I wouldn't let them touch anything that was a custom. I took all my Randall with me also.

I moved a lot of stuff myself and thought at worse they would take maybe one or 2 of these. Was I wrong! They pretty much took anything with an edge on it.

I have several buddies watching the pawn shops. However, I expect that they are (sadly) proficient enough at this that they took them away from the sight of the theft.

We really need to start treating thieves the way they should be treated. Enough of this slap on the wrist crap. In this one case I may agree with the muslims.
 
Dang gone.....and just think, you were supposed to be leaving MD to avoid this crap! Guess the locals had to get one more lick in before you were completely out.
 
Norton,
Yes, the MD maggots got me one last time!

I've moved out of their twice and was stolen from both times.

I won't be stupid enough to give them a 3rd chance!!!!!!!:cuss:
 
Just an update on this.

The moving company has sent my claim to their insurance company since it's almost $5k in damages and stolen goods. So, it's 2+ weeks more before I hear anything from their insurance company.

Wish I could hold their $5k interest free for several months.

Avoid this company if you can!
 
I know it wont make up for your lost collection, but you at least used a mover that is licensed & insured. Think of the poor sods who use unlicensed movers because they think they can save a few bucks.

I've lost a high-end computer before, it somehow 'disappeared' during a move. The insurance company was a royal PITA to work with, you could never contact a live person or get an update. Months after I had written it off, a check finally arrived in the mail.
 
Lawton Oklahoma? You must be artillery???? I am, and oddly enough, I had the reverse happen. On a move from Lawton to FT Belvoir, I had a knife stolen by the movers, but don't recall their name. It was some time before I realized it was missing, so it would have been odd to claim at that late date. It was in a closet that was being packed by this one kid who showed smelling like booze on packing day. I'm sure he just decided to drop it in his pocket.
 
hindsight 20/20 and all that, but I've been told a few times that if you're hiring movers to move you then first you should video tape everything you have of value. Lay everything out in plain sight throughout the house, then go room to room recording everything and dictating what is being shown in one long uninterrupted taping session. No break implies no edits in the recording. Later you can fill out any theft/loss report and highlight the portions of the tape, "as clearly shown 37 minutes and 14 seconds in the video the nine items in question were in excellent condition" .

Doesn't help you personally now, but might help someone else reading this later on.
 
Same thing happened to me when I left Ft. Sill. I had a case full of benchmades that they got in the same way, also never hitting the inventory sheet. The movers come in such a frenzy that you have a really hard time keeping track of whats goin' on. I assume your military, next time do a DITY move. It sucks but theres nobody to steal from you in this manner. If you have to use tranportation; I recommend to the soldiers that work for me to make a high dollar value list and bounce that off the inventory they make, and at least you have those items covered. Its amazing how many vultures are out there that target us, the military, to make a buck by ripping us off.
 
Sounds familiar! Last professional move we made was our first, and our last. They did more than $8,000.00 in damage. The worst was an 8', hand-carved floor clock (grandfather clock). There were only 50 of these clocks made for world-wide distribution.

The movers hit the train "...tracks at close to 50 MPH! Dang! You were kiddin' 'bout those tracks!" The tracks were clearly marked 10 MPH. I don't know how they missed it, when as they indicated, I had told them in advance. They turned that floor clock into toothpicks.

I didn't care about the money because it was insured. What I cared, is that we bought it the month that our daughter was born. It was her heirloom, and was the only one shipped to Michigan. We tried to replace it, but discovered that we had purchased #50 of 50.

Some possessions can not be replaced.
 
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