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WWII 16 Tool (WT) Original Rare Excellant
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Wilde Tool, brown grip scales and 1942, most were cut down. All that is uber scarce so far... I think this scabbard mouth has the harder to find marking, not so sure about that though. The whole thing seems about new. I can find them going at $600-$800USD back in 2010. Wait and see...
Here's one that sold at $500 USD. MINT WILDE TOOL M1 GARAND 16 INCH BAYONET
Here's one that sold at $890USD... WT Wilde Tool 1905 M1942 WWII 16 Bayonet 1943 Date w/ Scabbard for m1 Garand | eBay
Guess I did ok for $400 then
You bet! I purchased a standard 1918 dated SA marked 1905 blade with the same scabbard as this one shown...bought it for cheap and sold it long. Sort of hated to but you can't keep them all. Here's that one.
These are surprising is all, the one pictured has the brown grip scales with the black square in the center...hard to see now. The examples I saw had a whole brown plastic grip scale. That was a RIA I think...? I had lots of them in the past.
Shill bidding?
Anybody notice the crack in the left grip (top)
It certainly IS possible...if so then it'll come up again.Quote:
Originally Posted by AFJon
I would be curious to know whether the seller has others for sale. The first one is to hype up the "value" with shill bidding, so that you feel he is doing you a favour when he offers you "another - which by amazing coincidence came in only yesterday" for "only" $2000. The "another could, of course, be the same one again. Or he claims the first sale fell through, so he is regrettably offering it at the new bargain price. Such tricks are as old as the antiques business. I was once 3rd in an online auction where the final price was ludicrous, and the seller later offered me the item as a reduced (but still ridiculous) price, which I declined. So why didn't he offer it to the second bidder? Work it out yourself, and if you can't - avoid online auctions.
There's another one for sale by a lot more experienced seller currently at $1,525
Does anyone know the number made. Doesn't seem that rare if OP seller sold 4, there is another listed, and multiple members have one.
Putting it in perspective there were 150 Finnish M/42 bayonets made. I own one and I know of 5 others. I have seen exactly 2 for sale publicly and none in over a year.