Bought a couple New Old Stock G96 knives. How to (should I) clean them and how to take care of them?

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Hey community. I stumbled across a couple of new old-stock knives. They look like they have been in boxes since the 80s (?) the brass on some has developed a patina and I can see some have semi-dried up grease (?). Should I clean them up? If so how? I do have a small sonic cleaner for so the future series could go straight in that, but not sure how I would degrease them? The rest have wooden handles so I am afraid washing in water would damage these?

Appreciate your advice on how to best proceed...

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If the steel is clean I'd just leave it as is for now. All told if you take a vintage item and polish it up like new you diminish the value significantly.

For sure post some photos. Use a 3rd party site like Imgur and copy the images here.
 
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https://imgur.com/a/lKFGVzj

Here is a photo. I have learned that the seller polished the oxide off the brass before sending it to me. I am buying more of the 7000 and I asked him to leave them untouched in the box. I will post a photo.

if anyone is interested I might sell some.

I am also getting a couple of model 860 and could potentially get additional model 800. The 800 is a sweet sweet fixed blade.

all of these were handmade in Japan the seller tells me...
 
I would definately leave those as is for the time being. wipe any carbon steel or working parts with a bit of protective oil but avoid wood and don't drown them in lube.

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Ok. This is how they look like 100% untouched in their package! I am getting them all =} I think these are quite rare in this condition?

I guess I will leave the wrapper on it as well!?

I presume they will raise in value? They have been out of production since the 80’s right?

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I am quite new to maintenance and preservation. So just oil the blade? Do I remove the original grease? It seems to be a little dried up and gritty?
 
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I bought three NOS M7 Grade A military surplus bayonets. Two were made in '87, and one in '86. All I did was wipe them down good with Break Free CLP.

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