Wow most impressive for sure. Those look like cherished blades for sure. Not as fancy but glad I still own my 66 made Puma Skinner from my youth. Cost was under $30 back then. Guess that was considered serious cash back then though. LOL
Oh heck, we
really like Pumas!
As a teenager, I grew up kinda in a "Cutlery Retail Oasis", in Sevierville, TN, just up the road from Gatlinburg where The Acorn was a good sized tourist store that specialized in high end cutlery (think of them as a brick and mortar version of A G Russell or Cutlery Shoppe), and actually saw the humble beginnings of Smoky Mountain Knife Works (SMKW), when they were three or four long displays in the middle of a large Antique Mall, selling Parker's and Rigids and Case.
Ahh, heady stuff for a teen fascinated with all things shooty and stabby! Crying shame, splitting my fascination between soft, curvy girly critters and stabby/shooty stuff, that grocery store clerk gig of my youth just couldn't accommodate BOTH!