Found an old knife in the loft

Edrof said:
Light machine gun or submachine gun? If it's an LMG (Bren) it could be worth up to about £800 in good nick, deactivated. An SMG (Sten) would be hundreds of pounds, too. (I'm assuming it's from the 1940s.) Go find a spade!

You could grind the rust down to the metal in some places, but never properly restore it, sadly. :(
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I don't want to go into too much detail, public forum and all that jazz but drop me an email to my trust if you want to know a bit more :)

Yeah I meant just cleaning it up a bit more really, I kind of like that it's gnarled and pitted though :)
 
Edrof said:
My pleasure.



Light machine gun or submachine gun? If it's an LMG (Bren) it could be worth up to about £800 in good nick, deactivated. An SMG (Sten) would be hundreds of pounds, too. (I'm assuming it's from the 1940s.) Go find a spade!



You could grind the rust down to the metal in some places, but never properly restore it, sadly. :(
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Never heard a Bren called light before :D
 
acme15 said:
Is there nowhere in your house where you can put a dagger out of sight & mind of your kids? I'd just put it in a box in the loft wrapped in something. And if they knew about it I'd tell them I sold it.

Nice find though. :)
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Youngest has a toy sword and when he saw the knife while I was taking pictures of it he thought it was another toy and asked for it. The loft is going to be a play room, that's why I was up there moving things. A friend of mine has it locked it up in his gun cabinet until I decide what to do with it.
 
Edrof said:
It's only about 11kg - are you telling me you don't dual wield them?
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Lol have fired them a few times in my youth, was in the shooting team RCT cadets.

Must admit thought they were heavier than that, didn't want to be the one carrying it when everyone else had Lee Enfield no 4's:)
 
cyclops12 said:
Lol have fired them a few times in my youth, was in the shooting team RCT cadets.

Must admit thought they were heavier than that, didn't want to be the one carrying it when everyone else had Lee Enfield no 4's:)
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Did you find them to be accurate? I've talked to other shooters and they've said they seemed even more accurate than the No 4!
 
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