Hen & Rooster Knives
Note: The Hen and Rooster knives are pretty popular. These have stag handles that are top quality. In fact, it was the handles that caught my eye at the show.	"I bought these two knives at the Birmingham Gun and Knife Show earlier this year to give as Christmas gifts to a couple of fine, deserving young men I know." "The top knife is a 1982 Knoxville World's Fair commemorative. I usually don't buy commemorative guns or knives, but this one is for my step-son who was born in 1982. I thought he might like to hang on to that one."

Knife Collecting: Commemorative knives seem to be very popular among the knife buying public. You could build an entire collection with them.

Certain knife companies issue more commemoratives than others (you can probably guess who I'm thinking of). It seems like when they ran out of designs and materials to differentiate their products, some marketing guy came up with the idea of commemoratives!

I have truly expected to see a commemorative, commemorating the day Ralph Johnson got his truck stuck in the corn field. They could have a picture of it on the knife. Or the day Ralph got stung by a bumble bee (picture of a bumble bee). Then after they sell one thousand of the Ralph Johnson commemoratives, they could issue a special limited edition commemorating the one thousand sales!

Picture this: The Board of Directors of the WeSellaGazillion Knife Company are in the board room, drinking champagne, celebrating record sales of the Ralph Johnson Mishap collection. They are lifting their glasses and making toasts. The more they drink, the more ridiculous the toasts become. "Here's to the time old Ralph had too much to drink and fell off his horse." "Hey, we can make two knives out of that, one with a bottle of whiskey and another with a picture of his horse!"

After they run out of ideas, no wait, they never run out of ideas, they name one after each state. Then they name one after their favorite TV show. Then their favorite actors from the TV shows. Then football teams, race car drivers... 

I apologize for being sarcastic. My sarcasm stems from my experience with guns. The commemorative guns have not done well at increasing in value. In fact, some have not done well at holding their value. There have been times that I was tempted to buy a commemorative gun to use as a shooter. I never did.

Hen & Rooster knives:

I owned a 1978 Silver Anniversary Corvette many years ago. I drove that car for about five years. One day I was at my mechanics shop talking to him about the value of my car. Zeke only worked on Corvettes and knew more about the cars than anyone else I have known personally. I reminded him that it was a Silver Anniversary car, he told me that "every Corvette was an anniversary edition". His point was well taken.