Well, here is a very over-priced 48A - $1,200 or best offer....
Tip dinged, chips on the edge, use scratches, bad sharpening scratches, no sheath, multiple dings on pommel.
While I like Westerns, and the ones made in Boulder were solid, dependable knives and their heat -treatment on 440 (A and C) were excellent, under no circumstances that I can envision would a B&T from anyone be worth that kind of money, except maybe if the pommel and guard were made of 24K gold when the prices were WAY up there, with gold rivets in a sheath that is not even present.
Over-priced B&T SH48A C
In 1911, H. N. Platts, was able to draw on his extensive friendships and family connections in the cutlery world to start Western States Cutlery and Manufacturing of Boulder Colorado. At first only a jobbing business, by 1920 construction and machinery purchases were underway to begin manufacture of knives. Through name changes--to Western States Cutlery Co. in 1953, then Western Cutlery Co. in 1956--and moves first across town and later to Longmont Colorado, the company stayed under the leadership of the Platt family until 1984. In that year, the company was sold to Coleman, becoming Coleman-Western. Eventually purchased by Camillus in 1991, Western continued until Camillus expired in 2007.
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