UBB.threads Forums Edged Weapons Hunting, Forestry, and Shooting Forum BOOKS-"KNOWLEDGE IS KING"

Books seem to be your friends for life. Only as you get older do you realize how important they are to what you are collecting. They are not the final answer until you are holding in your hand and have within your sight, a knife, blade, dagger or whatever it is you are into collecting, but they are a true reference point than the word of mouth from a stranger. You only have to be stung a few times until you will realize how important it would have been to research the item you are collecting. How great it is to compare your purchase with a history of it in a book you own. That feeling alone will make you go on to enlarge your collection. Do not despair if what you have bought turns out to be incorrect as it will evaporate in the time machine you have entered.

The books, pamphlets and folders etc. that you are about to follow are references I have used for the collecting of Hunting and Forestry Daggers (Hirsch angers) over the years since 1966. If you see a title you are interested in you can probably find the article by using your Webb pages on book references. Please check the German Dagger.com listings first. TheGDC Book Store. They help make these forums possible.

Books on all types of daggers are endless. If you have any books on Hunting Daggers that you see I do not have please let me know the titles or if they are for sale.

My Webb Page: http://www.cashi.com/collection.htm

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Catalogues references. I have every catalogue that HERMANN'S has put out since they have been established.

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The next few photographs will show the importance of having a book reference to an expensive Hirschfanger. It is back up to the reference on the blade that show the existance of the owner and who he was. (That is if you can read German)

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Thank you for looking. I hope this all will help you get a in the book collecting part of daggers and bayonets.
Sincerely,
HUBERTUS

Owned a presentation sword Wittgenstein it is in the last series of the Johnson Imperial books (Army Swords) same family crest as in book..

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I was using these two for references and almost forgot them.

The large (English) Manfred Sachse Book on damascus steel is missing and I think it is a must have... Always for sale on e-bay...Regards: James

You need my new NPEA book: "Waffenleite presenting NPEA Daggers of the Third Reich"
Ron Weinand

Ralph, as usual, great selection of books. My moto has been if you cannot find a hunting dagger at a show, buy a book. I also find that some of the museums for Arms and Armour have decent reference books in their souviner shops. Thanks again for showing. I see a few I do not have, so something more to look for. James

A wonderful cross sectional library of very helpful & extensive references! It gives us great ideas of other sources for finding the missing photos and descriptions, which we often are looking to find. Thank you. Dave/dblmed

James, thank you for your input on the damasks book but as I am gathering up more of the books to try and keep them all together I see I already have it. Also thanks to Ron on his new LPEA book. I have so many tear sheets, catalogues and magazines on hunting pieces and bayonets it is difficult to keep it all confined to those two type of blades.

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Additional Group Of Catalogues