big knives

[Indianasmith]

If I could afford it, I think I would give $1000 - 1200 for the set . . . but then again, that's easy for me to say when I don't have the coin in my pocket! The market is a bit flat right now, especially for the lower end stuff. The two largest pieces are obviously your best, and would account for well over half the value of the sale. But the pieces on the bottom row are mostly damaged and have little value.

[Steve Valentine]

That's the problem trying to sell personal finds. They have too much of a sentimental value to the finder so of course they think they are worth a lot more than they actually are. To be perfectly honest with you, I would go $600 to $700 tops for the lot. You have three pieces that might fetch close to that on thier own and the rest wouldn't get more than $15 to $50 each. If someone was buying them to try to resale them then they wouldn't want to pay top dollar because they would'nt be able to make a profit.

You can take away the 4 broken pieces, so that leaves you with 14 good pieces and only 3 that are great pieces. Out of the 11 that are left only 6 would fetch around $35 to $50 each, so that's no more than $210 to $300 for those and the others are basically common feild grade pieces and not worth much.

Don't get me wrong, there are some nice pieces there, but just not $1500 worth of nice pieces. I'm not trying to hurt your feelings or downgrade your artifacts, I'm just trying to give you an honest opinion from what I have seen things go for at auctions lately.