Is this Case 6318 legit?

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Is this Case 6318 legit?

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https://m.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Case-XX- ... SwJjZa74ml
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All this seller's knives are awfully shiny. And what about the liners on this 6318? Did Case not use brass liners during 65-69?
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Looks like a good knife to me. Blades are stainless steel so being shiny is what I'd expect. Doesn't look to have been carried much if any. Bolsters and backsprings may have been lightly buffed but not to excess. And Case used mostly nickel silver for bolsters, especially on stockman patterns. Quote from Steve Pfeiffer's book Collecting Case Knives 2nd edition, page 30:
From the Case XX era onward, Case used nickel silver as a lining material on most patterns in several general categories of pocket knives. Most three-blade stockman patterns were made with nickel silver liners, as were some of the two-blade jack knives that were made on the same frame styles as the stockman knives.
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Thanks! Y'all are the experts, so I appreciate your response.
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If you're going to collect Case knives you need a copy of that book. Worth every penny and then some!

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Mumbleypeg wrote:If you're going to collect Case knives you need a copy of that book.
And here it is. Like Ken said, it's worth every penny.

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If you send a knife to Case for repair, it will come back looking like that. The way I see it if Case finds it acceptable to polish them like that I see no reason why a person selling one cant do it as well.
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NAllen731 wrote:If you send a knife to Case for repair, it will come back looking like that. The way I see it if Case finds it acceptable to polish them like that I see no reason why a person selling one cant do it as well.
Not necessarily.
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There is buffing, and then there is BUFFING.

What drives me crazy is a knife that shows all the signs of once being badly corroded, but now the pits and craters on the blade & tang shine like the grill of a '49 Desoto. That ain't right.
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The problem with buffing a knife (other than it makes it look like a polished turd) is that it makes any flaws like pitting and scratches much more prominent. Buffing can totally ruin the appeal of a knife even when done lightly. A clean rag with polishing compound by hand is as far as should ever be done.
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peanut740 wrote:
NAllen731 wrote:If you send a knife to Case for repair, it will come back looking like that. The way I see it if Case finds it acceptable to polish them like that I see no reason why a person selling one cant do it as well.
Not necessarily.
I have sent several to them and they have always returned highly polished, including the handles. They have one of mine and one of my sons right know, we will see how they are when they return.
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NAllen731 wrote:
peanut740 wrote:
NAllen731 wrote:If you send a knife to Case for repair, it will come back looking like that. The way I see it if Case finds it acceptable to polish them like that I see no reason why a person selling one cant do it as well.
Not necessarily.
I have sent several to them and they have always returned highly polished, including the handles. They have one of mine and one of my sons right know, we will see how they are when they return.
See above comments.Most people have no clue how to clean a knife.
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When I get the knife back from Case, I will post photos. Unfortunately I do not have any before photos.

I do understand the polished turd comment, I have done it myself trying to dress up a knife, lipstick on a pig was the end result.
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The OP knife is authentic, and the blades are CV (carbon) steel - not stainless.

EDITED....once I looked at it my error - it is indeed stainless. all original, nice old knife.

Ebay in its infinite non-wisdom will no longer let you pull up a completed listing any more via the link, so I do not know if the knife was original or buffed out.

That said, it is not unusual to find XX, USA, and 70's dots Case knives in original mint condition. So just because a knife looks "too shiny" does not mean that it is a used knife that has been cleaned/buffed.
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Steve, you CAN still view the completed listings on ebay, but you REALLY have to want to do it, because ebay has made it very difficult.

Step 1: When you see this, click the link on the word "Listing":
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Step #2: On the next page, click the link on "See Original Listing":
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Step #3: On the next page, there is no link, so it looks like you are stuck, but what you need to do is scroll down past all the worthless "help" ebay is trying to give you:
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Finally, there it is!
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TFL, thanks for this info.
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Thanks, Two Flowers...another way around Ebay's stupidity.
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