Case Bradford Barlow

[btrwtr]

Not sure what is going on with this knife but I can say that the frame, handles and that master blade certainly don't belong together. Bone handles are from a much later version Case Barlow c.1950-1970. Some heavy bidding going on for a knife that is cobbled. How can buyers spend this kind of money and have no idea of what they are buying. Read the knife couldn't be any more true than this example.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-ANTIQUE-V ... 1438.l2649

[knifeaholic]

Yikes!! this seller has put up a lot of cobbled junk. I don't believe the blades are real, and as Wayne says the frame is late XX to 1970.

[TwoFlowersLuggage]

Where do these guys get blades that old that are in such good shape? Or are the blades fake? I would think any knife that old with handles so broken & beat-up that you would cannibalize the knife would have blades that showed much more age, not be bright & shiny. No?

[stockman]

It is for sure put together from parts, like Wayne said later frame, what the blades are?? Probably not Bradford.

Harold

[OLDE CUTLER]

Someone paid $300 for it. That will insure another big bunch of fakes are in process right now. I am starting to wonder as some of you are, where are the blades coming from? Could a top drawer scammer have made (or had one made) a fake Case tang stamp? Not outside the realm of possibility is it?

[Tsar Bomba]

I imagine if any of the Case stamps would be easy to fake, the Bradford or the 40-64 XX stamps would be the ones. We've seen some comically-bad Tested, 25 cent, etc. stamps in the past. Currently I don't think XX is really valuable enough to fake en masse. So Bradford it is. Or maybe soeone had a drawer full of Bradford masters with long pull stashed away somewhere?

Question of blade aside, anybody with a pretty bone Barlow later XX/USA recognizes the dye style and cut of the bone..

Did real Bradford-era Barlows have an unstamped bolster?

[knifeaholic]

I imagine if any of the Case stamps would be easy to fake, the Bradford or the 40-64 XX stamps would be the ones. We've seen some comically-bad Tested, 25 cent, etc. stamps in the past. Currently I don't think XX is really valuable enough to fake en masse. So Bradford it is. Or maybe soeone had a drawer full of Bradford masters with long pull stashed away somewhere?

Question of blade aside, anybody with a pretty bone Barlow later XX/USA recognizes the dye style and cut of the bone..

Did real Bradford-era Barlows have an unstamped bolster?

I have never seen the 62009 series barlows in any stamp older than Tested. The only Case Bradford stamped barlows that I have ever seen are the 005 patterns with jigged (not sawcut) bone and the stamped flat bolster.

I have also never seen a Case-made 009 barlow with long pull. The only ones with long pull that I have seen are the XX era 009 barlows that were made on contract by Ulster.

I believe that the main clip blade on the posted knife is not a real Case blade. - appears to be an older blade of some other brand that was restamped.

[Bamarick]

The clip blade looks a lot like an old Ulster Barlow that I have. This seller has several knives that look questionable to me.

Ricky

[OLDE CUTLER]

I imagine if any of the Case stamps would be easy to fake, the Bradford or the 40-64 XX stamps would be the ones. We've seen some comically-bad Tested, 25 cent, etc. stamps in the past. Currently I don't think XX is really valuable enough to fake en masse. So Bradford it is. Or maybe soeone had a drawer full of Bradford masters with long pull stashed away somewhere?

Question of blade aside, anybody with a pretty bone Barlow later XX/USA recognizes the dye style and cut of the bone..

Did real Bradford-era Barlows have an unstamped bolster?

I have never seen the 62009 series barlows in any stamp older than Tested. The only Case Bradford stamped barlows that I have ever seen are the 005 patterns with jigged (not sawcut) bone and the stamped flat bolster.

I have also never seen a Case-made 009 barlow with long pull. The only ones with long pull that I have seen are the XX era 009 barlows that were made on contract by Ulster.

I believe that the main clip blade on the posted knife is not a real Case blade. - appears to be an older blade of some other brand that was restamped.

Then that means some body, some where has had a tang stamp made to make the knives that are showing up like this one. That would really seem to me to be a fly in the ointment to Case collectors. Thanks to all you AAPK members posting comments about this knife as well as the many others that have been seen recently. But the fact remains that some one paid $300 for the one in question, and that will breed more of them.

[Tsar Bomba]

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