foragedfungus said:

My grandfathers WWII rope knife.
The sheepsfoot blade makes it hard to accidentally stab yourself while cutting ropes on a boat at sea.

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Phegnomeanon said:

  Hell I keep it on the attic so the kid doesn’t stumble on it. 

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Its a collection of historic artifacts, and you don't tack a political agenda onto it so, it belongs in the knives collection.


Whoa, two Hiterjugend knives, the ultimate knife of corruption. A shiny knife given to youths to entice them to join the standing army of Evil of their day. It was used by the Nazis to corrupt youths into becoming their cannon fodder, luring them with promises of shiny things into what we now know happened.

Its the inverse counterpart of the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife which I showed earlier, thats on my altar. The two are as sworn enemies as two nonmagically forged knives can be. (nothing like a Kris though, which ARE, if you must get one of those get one fored for you only, never second hand - they are almost always hexed)


One of my spirit guides told me years back that a Hitler Youth Knife would be given to me at one point for the purpose of ritually decommissioning it as part of the process of Europe coming to terms with the legacy of the Third Reich. Spiritual/magical/alchemistic stuff.


Be careful with those blades and regalia, they exert an attraction to lots of people, but some very sinister ones among them. Should you get offers in PM about them, make dead sure to check the reputation of whomever offers what for it.


As a spiritual practitioner I believe everything consists of spirit and spirit of actions and intentions can cling to it. The kitchen knife with which I decapitated a chicken for spiroit purposes as well as christmas dinner, stands apart from lets say my favorite veggie slicer.

Knives that have killed, or which were made for sinister or lofty purposes, carry charges that enanate from them, this also in the same vein of superstition of the swordsmen of old.


Since we're in Knives Of Our Lives, here's my favorite veggie slicer, a Kai Shun hand forged damascus steel classic chef knife, together with the very last carrots and radishes of my potted garden, before frost set in:






Regarding your collection though, I'm not at all at home in world war regalia etc but I wouldnt be surprised if the whole collection put together there is worth well over $1000, and very likely multiples of that, for the right buyer.

Unfortunately the right buyer is quite often the wrong buyer, so watch out in getting rid of it if you sell it. They're things thart were killed over and many people still are willing to kill over them, including the seller to save the expense.

A museum would seem appropriate.