Kris/Kalis with straight blade

[kronckew]

sorry for sniping you, but i couldn't let this one go. it wanted to live with me.

i have been sniped out of a couple nice things myself, but i always bid my maximum bid in the last seconds, don't want to encourage others to spend more than they can afford on impulse . many times the current high bidder has also bid his max and i lose anyway, or another person has bid higher also at the end. moral of this is always bid what you think is your best offer, sometimes you win low, sometimes you still lose.

ebay is weirdly politically correct anyway, it won't let me bid on perfectly legal antique knives, tho swords, sabres, axes, spears, halberds, tanks, field artillery, tactical nukes, battleships, kitchen knives* are OK. was watching a nice forrester's hunting sword/dagger last week, went to bid & ebay rejected me due to their policy of not allowing UK residents to buy these evil people murderering weapons of mass destruction. (i then tried bidding thru ebay USA, same result.) a number of years ago some liberal lefty newspaper reporter did a story on how easy it was for children to buy horrible sharp pointy folding samurai knives and dagger on ebay. ebay, ever PC, only allowed people with a verified debit/credit card to bid on them as they were nominally over 18. (you can only legally buy one if over 18.mm i am a few times older than that) the lefty then pointed out yet again that some banks issued debit cards to 17 yr. olds. thus the total ban.

(the above mentioned (pre nazi) hunting sword also had the evil nasty sheeple scaring word 'dagger' in the description' which i assume triggered the prohibition - it wound up going for a bit more than i tried to bid anyway)

*- most knife 'crimes' in the UK are done with kitchen knives, or cheap stainless steel chinese 'samurai' swords/knives. i recall one news article mentioning a teen-aged felon was caught with a '9 inch samurai sword'. nice PC newspeak propaganda, that. apparently there has not been any significant crime with expensive antique or custom knifes.