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Trying to get some info about a Case Classic Bulldog I recently acquired. Here's what I believe I know. Pattern number is 61072. Build date is 1990. These stampings are on the blade. It looks like a yellow bone with "bomb shield". However I do not see it listed in the price guide. Is the l...

These are marked on the blades. However others I've seen are marked inside the brass inner liners.

I agree with your point about being too rare. At least in this case these knives are produced today and there's no mistaking them. I think it's odd the prototypes were made some 15 years before they were sold to the main stream public. Like in my mammoth ivory example. Every collector knows what the...

Thanks Sowbelly. Figured that was the case with the newer knives. I thought collectors might pay more for a 1 of 1 Case documented prototype. They are not direct buy from Case. No Bose patterns either. They are the typical stockman, peanut and trapper styles. Speaking of the Bose knives though, l ha...

I am a collector and do not buy/sell knives for a living. Realize as with most hobbies you never get your money back. I was just wondering if it was foolish to pay double or more for a documented prototype. I hesitate to post pictures or exact desc because I have not yet purchased them - some of you...

They are Case, not Case Classic.

Are Case Prototype knives typically a good investment? For example, a mammoth ivory 1 of 1 in the world with prototype mark of a particular pattern. What would be a "good buy" as a rule of thumb, double, triple the going market rate of the knife? Currently production mammoth knives are goi...