About a year or so ago I stumbled across a pretty good find at an antique shop with several of these 34OT's and 108OT's that are U.S. made, and still in the original packages. There are no indications of the year on the packages so I'm only assuming they might be early 2000's, before they left the U.S., since they are not in boxes and are in this weird plastic packaging. I'm just not sure what to do with them??
I'm kinda one of those guys that only likes to keep original packaging/papers etc. with the knives I collect. The issue with these, is that the packaging will be damaged if opened. (The reason I'm a huge fan of boxes and tubes). If it was up to me I would leave them in the package for the next 30 years, but I'm worried the knives might rust too bad or back springs go out with the way the blades are opened up etc.
So... what would you do? Open them and use? Or keep them in the packages?
I'm kinda one of those guys that only likes to keep original packaging/papers etc. with the knives I collect. The issue with these, is that the packaging will be damaged if opened. (The reason I'm a huge fan of boxes and tubes). If it was up to me I would leave them in the package for the next 30 years, but I'm worried the knives might rust too bad or back springs go out with the way the blades are opened up etc.
So... what would you do? Open them and use? Or keep them in the packages?