

Our
number one goal is for you to be a happy customer with your purchase.
We offer many rare collectible knives and other unique items for
sale. If there is some kind of knife that we do not have, please
let us know and we will do our best to see if we can locate one
for you one.
If
for any reason you have an issue or a concern with your purchase,
please contact us through
eBay. We will do our best to resolve your issue professionally
and timely and treat you with respect.
I
have been collecting, buying and selling knives for over forty years.
I grew up in a small town in East Tennessee. My grandfather and
father owned a hardware and farm supply store, and that is where
my knife collecting passion started. I worked for my father after
school each day and on the weekends plus in the summer when I was
out of school.
My
father mainly sold Boker knives made in Solingen, Germany. They
were and still are a high-quality knife. The unique thing about
a growing up in a small town in East Tennessee is that it was much
like The Andy Griffith Show in that our small town had many of the
same real- life characters. One of the unique attributes of our
small town is that we had four hardware stores plus my father's
store and a Courthouse Square.
Often
my father would send me to another store to pick up an item we were
out of so our customer would be happy. This is where I learned how
important it is to have happy customers. One day I had to go to
one of the other hardware stores and pick up some items for my father,
when all of a sudden staring right at me like a new shinny penny
was a Case Knife Display. Well for a young boy who already had a
knife collecting passion, this was like pouring gas on a fire. All
I could think of was when can I take another trip to that store
so I could look through the glass at all the shiny Case knives.
I began buying and trading for Case knives with the older men that
owned the store and his partners. I would take my prize knives home
and polish on them until my hands were tired. It was not long before
I was a traveling knife salesman in our town making rounds to all
the hardware stores to buy and trade knives.
One
day I noticed a bunch of old men in overhauls sitting in front of
our courthouse cutting a piece of wood with their knife. Each one
had a large stack of cedar shavings underneath him. I thought to
myself how anyone could use a shiny knife to cut wood. I was an
adventures young boy so I stopped one day and learned all I wanted
too about whittling and telling stories, but the most important
thing I discovered was I had a new source to buy, sell and trade
knives.
Over
the years my collection grew and grew just like I was growing up
and becoming a teenager in the 1970's. I had another hobby that
I enjoyed and that was riding dirt bikes in the mountains with my
friends. In our small town you did not need a license to drive downtown;
you just had to be brave and safe. This became my mode of transportation
from our house to my father's store and to all my knife collecting
spots. I was about fifteen years old and like all teenagers I had
accumulated a lot of wisdom I thought. I had been wanting to buy
my first motocross dirt bike and one day I came up with one of my
smart plans to sell my knife collection and but the motocross bike.
It was easy to sell my knife collection as all my knives were in
mint condition and I had kept all of the boxes and literature that
came with them. Yes I have re-lived that not-so-smart decision many
times as I had many pristine mint ten dot 1970 Case knives in the
orange pumpkin boxes with the brown wrapping paper.
For
about five years knife collecting was not a part of me, but the
old saying applies - you can take the knife out of the boy, but
you cannot take the man out of the knife. Once I began collecting,
selling and trading again I had accumulated a lot of knowledge about
knives so my collection grew fast. To keep my knife hobby alive
I had to continually sell and trade knives in order to buy more
knives. In the 1990's the internet was beginning to buzz with buying
and selling knives on eBay. I began selling knives on eBay in 2001
under the seller ID pdpratt. We have been blessed with wonderful
customers as our feedback is over 34,000. Our business is a family
business as my wife and grown children help to keep things running
smooth just like I did at my father's store in the 1970's.
Our
number one goal today is for you to be a happy customer with your
purchase. We offer many brands of rare collectible knives for sale.
If there is some kind of knife that we do not have, please let us
know and we will do our best to see if we can locate one for you.
I just may have to run downtown to see if i can find one. I sure
miss those good old days when you could go to your local hardware
store and look at those shiny knives!
If
for any reason you have an issue or a concern with your purchase,
please contact us through
eBay. We will do our best to resolve your issue professionally
and timely and treat you with respect.
Pratt's
Collectible Cutlery
Visit
us also at prattscutlery.com.


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