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Millern
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Recent find

Post by Millern »

While at the huge, biannual antique event in Warrenton, TX, I found this Super Automatic. It’s in great condition!
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MarkR
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Re: Recent find

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Nice find!!
sammy the blade
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Re: Recent find

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Looks good, used to get those for a little under $20 a dozen and was lucky if half of them worked. Those days are long gone. That was wholesale price, a friend that had a gun shop ordered them and I sold the working ones for $10 each at the factory I was working at. Close to 30 years ago.
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Tom19176
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Re: Recent find

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Blue is hard to find! Bell Metal Co k 108.
Sammy these are the better ones. The importer never sold them for less than $6 each when you bought a gross. Perhaps you're thinking of the cheaper ones?
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The ones I had were camo colored and definitely were cheape. Sold them for $5 each and felt kinda guilty about it.
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There were a few brands that made them with the camo handles. They are all cheap but the Bell Metal ones were the best of the bunch.
Millern
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Are the Super Stilletos with pinned bolsters older than the ones without pins?
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NorthCarolinaDude
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Re: Recent find

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Sweet little novelty piece, indeed. And in amazing condition. A super cool find, congrats!! I still have my Super Stiletto (in red) that I brought back from Tijuana in my shoe back in the mid to late 80s. I found a street vendor there with all sorts of these knives almost immediately coming off the walkover bridge. Ever since then, I have kicked myself for only buying the one model. There's just so much nostalgia there. I've said it before but I will get to it and post some pics of mine here once I'm a little less busy. I also have an EdgeCo lever-lock in brass and wood that I bought around the same time. I guess you could call it a "kit", but it was just a knife with a drop-in spring tossed in the box. :)
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