Reagan addresses Exchange Club members

Lesslie Reagan, of Gatesville, recently spoke to the Gatesville Exchange Club about his vast collection of knives – some of which are very rare.

“I began collecting pocketknives when I was 25 and I’m now almost 70 now, so it’s been quite a while,” Reagan said.

The main type of knives Reagan collects is the folding Hunter pattern. Most of the knives in his collection were made in the 1940s and 1950s.

“The bigger the knife, the more expensive they are,” he said.

Over the years of collecting, Reagan now has over 2,000 pocket knives in his collection.