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The origin of humanity`s use of sharp instruments as tools is lost in history, but it is fair to surmise this could be one of the first actual tools used by people.
There is no question knives were fashioned from rock material during the Stone Age and continued to be used even through the Bronze Age. The frozen corpse of a man found in the Alps in 1991, preserved for over 5,000 years had a kit containing a flint knife.
Knives have always been an extremely useful tool to have. They are probably one of the only tools that we use daily that were used by our distant ancestors.
Today there is not one of us who does not benefit from the efforts of our forefathers.
Each one of us uses a knife every day of our lives whether we use it to eat or prepare food, open packages or boxes or have a shave.
Like many collectors, a knife collector initially comes up blank when asked why they got started and why knives.
Motive may be so fundamental, so intrinsic that it simply doesn't consciously engage a collector's attention. Focusing on objects, after all, their beauty, function and relationship to each other, may be a kind of self-sustaining process of externalized emotion. It's a kind of art.
Perhaps that's why as collectors, collecting fascinates and unites us. Our passions, unruly or not, pry open the world and reveal some hidden order and harmony.
On the more formal side of “collecting,” it does seem that growing up as “kids,” we all collected something we made into a hobby
It could have begun with baseball cards, marbles, or stamps. Then it moved on: to antique books, Longaberger baskets, state quarters or even knives.
Most academics have concluded that people collect in an effort to keep alive memories from the past. Even if memory can not accurately reproduce an event of the past, still it remains vital in understanding that past. A collector always connects (nostalgia?) to the historic, valued past via the objects in his collection.
This site was designed for two purposes: to help collectors find knives that will match their specific interests and to give collectors a place to display their collections.
Some people choose to ignore the value and history of knives as tools and view them as weapons that they do not want in their homes. As this site develops, it will become a place for you as a collector to display your collection in a gallery format, with anonymity if you choose and a documented record of your collection for insurance and inheritance purposes.
As our database grows, this site will also give collectors access to information that will help them match their interests with like makers and existing pieces. Additional information that will be a byproduct of this database will give the collector information to authenticate, value and identify a piece that they may be interested in. This is a site for collectors by collectors.