Yes Ian, the discussion is getting circular. It has gone right away from my original intent when I first asked my questions.
In fact, the two gentlemen whom I addressed have both answered me well, in their own fashion, and I now believe I understand how they were thinking when they declared that the post # 6 dagger was "better" than all the others.
Their "better" meant according to their own personal preferences.
It was not an analytical, reasoned, objective opinion, it was an emotional, subjective opinion based their own personal preferences.
That was really all I wanted to understand.
I did not set out to start a discussion on how knives are, or should be, assessed or appraised.
I only set out to understand how two experienced collectors thought, and those two gentlemen have given me more or less what I wanted.
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