The News from ElephantToenails.com

While I don’t have many opportunities to attend knife shows with my biz travels and family activities. This time the stars aligned. Here’s the deal- I have a biz meeting in Atlanta on Thursday, which puts me only an hour away. My wife and kids are going to a camp (and no I didn’t send my wife to a camp so I could go to the show) on Friday and Saturday. So, the net gain is this- I am headed to Dalton tomorrow afternoon. Friday I’ll be there when the doors open and will hang til at least mid-day on Saturday. 

Usually I only have a few hours to scope out the toenails for sale and to say hello to a few folks. For this show I going to have more time than I have ever had at a show. I have my ET.com host hat on- video and regular cameras ready.

Many of the members here at ET.com haven’t been to a knife show before, therefore my goal is to capture the essence of it for them using both video and pictures. I would like to record a couple of on-camera interviews, some “News” reporting, as well as identifying the toenails for sale. Actually, my agenda makes my head spin, so wish me luck. I’ll give you a run down next week. 

If you like 1) Knife folks, 2) Knife Auctions and 3) W R Case, then mark your calenders now for the Big Event for 2008! The date of the upcoming W R Case Collectors Appreciation Day is July 18th/19th in Bradford, PA.  I was honored to have been asked to be the guest auctioneer for the 2006 Swap Meet. I had a blast and guess I did an OK job because they have asked me to come back. I can’t wait. 

I can’t believe it. I flipped through the hardcopy catalog I received today and just shook my head, for two reasons: One- because we as toenail collectors think toenails are getting expensive and because I am very impressed with the collection Mr. Littman amassed. There are 143 pages of knives (no toenails I already looked). Hundreds of knives, and some really expensive ($100,000- $150,000) individual knives. Can’t wait to see how many millions this sale brings in (plus I am an auctioneer and think how much fun it would be to do a knife auction).

As reported in the December edition of Knife World, Camillus has gone out of business. I can imagine it is hard to compete against the foreign makers.

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