nice daggers in good condition have drastically gone up in value over the last 5 years but damaged and parts daggers have not .call the buyers bluff and take the $12000 or $10000 . or an exceptable restoration option ,at least to me, would be to buy a nice eickhorn and swop the blades at least all parts would still be genuine and the fit would not be so much of a problem i did this with a himmler and you can not tell that the parts have been swopped