Phrobis XM9

[pwcosol]

What about that clear Lancay!

[rexmeyer]

Kind of brings tears to my eyes all these rare M-9's knowing I cannot afford to purchase them...But I will keep looking....

[Mister Moon]

DART ! 3383 $ .....
And the WINNER is ..... always not me

[Carlo]

Carlo is the winner.
Will post pictures of the bayonet once I'll get it.

[Chris Johnson]

Carlo… Congrats… A “Most Excellent” bayonet, looking forward to seeing the photos.

[Mister Moon]

Originally Posted by Carlo

Carlo is the winner.
Will post pictures of the bayonet once I'll get it.

B R A V O !

[M9A1]

$3383!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Was simply is insane

[pwcosol]

The recent Phrobis XM9 on Ebay was a nice example. I was even going to tender a bid myself. However, when I saw the current (and what turned out to be the final) bid on it Friday afternoon, I logged off the 'puter with my tail between my legs! As for the price, what can one say...the XM9 is a significant and historic U.S. military collectable, of which perhaps less than 30 are retained by private collectors.
It took the dissolution of a collection started in the late 1980s to bring such M9s back into circulation (just like two other similar collections which came on the market in the past three years). In addition, I was able to ascertain what some of these scarce M9 variants sold for (primarily those offered by a major bayonet collector/dealer) by accompanying paperwork. Several sold for about 75%+ of their average current value back in the late 1980s & 1990s, making them more expensive 15-20 years ago than their relative values today!

[rexmeyer]

Nice job, Carlo! You must have lots of extra cash around to be able to afford this and the other ones. here is a couple of pictures of my incomplete one I managed to get for 256.00 on ebay a couple of years ago...It came at an auction from the now closed Callimus cultery in New York...It is minus the scabbard, pommel, and pommel nut....Just last year there was one on Ebay that sold for under 1700.00 complete..... Rex

[Carlo]

Hello,
yes I remember the XM9 that was sold last summer and that Chris won for an incredible (low, but it is relative) price.
Was $3383 insane for this bayonet?
I really don't know and I think it is quite difficult to tell for an M9 like this.
What I can tell you is that I was expecting the price to go even higher.
Rex, I really don't have tons of extra cash.
I just keep waiting for something I really like: I don't collect other bayonets (only the M9s) and I usually don't buy duplicates of examples I already have.
I also decided, for this reason, to focus my collection on the Buck-Phrobis (and Marto, as long as it is Phrobis related), instead of trying to obtain every single Lan-Cay variation.
There are only few exceptions, like the Lan-Cay dutch scabbard.