I don't know anyone who would pay over £1300 for a not very old Billao knife with a wrecked horn hilt even with gold mounts unless they were nutz, for me the gold far out weighed the value of the knife, 99.9 % of dealers like me would have done the same and seen it as a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush, as a dealer I do not sit on things like this waiting for some purist collector to come along and try to ponce it from me for £100 quid, I have a living to make just as we all do, I did the right thing, I do not regret doing it one tiny bit.
Anyone out there who would like the blade and sheath they can have it for free as long as they pay the price of the postage to wherever it has to go.
Snody