1973 Stag Set

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 12:46 am

Does anyone know what patterns were in the 1973 Case stag sets? How many sets were produced?

knifeaholic · Post by **knifeaholic** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:51 am

05263SS
5233
5111-1/2LSSP Cheetah
5220
5232
5332
5347
5347SS
5347SSP
53047
54052
5254
5265
5172 Bulldog
5375
5383
52087
53087
5488
5392
5299-1/2
52131

I don't know the hunting knives off the top of my head. Of course even though the sets were released in 1973, the knives in the sets were stamped with 10 dots mostly, some with 9 (some with 8? not sure).

knifeaholic · Post by **knifeaholic** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 1:53 am

Oh, and as far as I know, there were 2,000 sets, each with 19 pocket knives and 5 hunting knives.

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:30 pm

Thanks Buddy!!

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:35 pm

Oh, were they etched or marked in any way, and were they serialized?

knifeaholic · Post by **knifeaholic** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 6:44 pm

Blade Runner wrote:Oh, were they etched or marked in any way, and were they serialized?

No. These were standard production knives, there is no way to tell them from the 10 dot stags that were shipped before stag was discontinued due to embargo in mid 1970.

A couple of points though....the Bulldogs even though they were still in production in 1970 never had dots, they are the same as the USA model.

And rememer hunting knives were never dotted until starting in 1980, so the hunting knives that were in the stag sets will have the USA stamp, just like those produced 1965-1969.

The Cheetahs and 5347SSP stockmans were not regular production Case knives but were made specially for the sets and all with nine dots (did some Cheetahs have 8 dots? I am not sure about that). But even these patterns had no special markings or serial numbers.

There were several other patterns (maybe four total) where some will have nine dots, but I cannot recall off the top of my head what they are....I suspect that Case stamped more blades in 1971 to make a few patterns to round out the sets, where the supply of leftover 10 dot blades was exhausted.

stagman · Post by **stagman** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:55 pm

Fixed blade hunters were:
523-6
523-5
516-5
5 Finn
M5F

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Sat Apr 22, 2006 11:57 pm

O. K. Thanks Knifaholic and Stag Man--- Very Helpful!!!
Take Care
Blade Runner

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:40 pm

Hey Knifeaholic, Got one more quick question regarding the 73 stag set. You said there were 19 pocket knives in this set, yet you have 22 listed. If you would be so kind as to clarify please. Thank you kind sir.
Take Care
Blade Runner

knifeaholic · Post by **knifeaholic** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 12:20 am

Blade Runner wrote:Hey Knifeaholic, Got one more quick question regarding the 73 stag set. You said there were 19 pocket knives in this set, yet you have 22 listed. If you would be so kind as to clarify please. Thank you kind sir.
Take Care
Blade Runner

Well, I am not sure but I have read that each set had 19....that would just mean that not every pattern was represented in every set.

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 1:16 am

That will work. Thanks a million ol' buddy.
Blade Runner

stagman · Post by **stagman** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:16 am

Case's packing slip for that 1973 stag set listed
22 different pocket knives and 8 different hunting knives.
The 2000 sets made contained 18 folders and 5 hunters
They might have mixed up the patterns between sets so
every set was not identical.
$500 when issued, maybe $6000-7000 now

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:22 am

Stagman, If you happen to have that packing slip could you post it for us to look at? I've never seen it.
Thanks, Blade Runner

stagman · Post by **stagman** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 3:11 pm

No, I do not have a packing slip Bladerunner
I remembered seeing that in a old knive book guide
Dwight over at http://www.knivesofthepast.com had
one of these sets for sale about 1 year ago, $7500.00
Thats the only one I have ever saw offered
Folk's have broke up all the old Case stag sets
over the years making big bucks on individual sales
If ya was really wantin one, Dwight Long would be the
guy to contact
Stagman

Knifekid · Post by **Knifekid** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:37 pm

Here's an original Packing Slip from Case. Notice two of some patterns were shipped and some others weren't included. Sorry you can't read it well, if you want a good view of it just email me and I'll send you the full size version. perry@spaceportcutlery.com and yep I do have the full set still in the box.
Perry

stagman · Post by **stagman** » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:57 pm

There ya go Bladerunner, Knifekid is the man !!!

And to Perry: My wife and I actually met
you and your wife and talked a while at a december
Parkers show 4-5 yrs ago.
We all should have known that if anybody had a 1973
Stag set in the box with packing slips it was you,
who's knife store ain't even on the planet, but in OUTERSPACE !!!
LOL
Great talkin with ya Perry
Will

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:51 am

Many Thanks to Stagman and Knife Kid. Perry I tried to email you a couple of times. For some reason it was returned both times. Anyway I was able to save the image large enough to read. Thanks Again!!!
Take Care
Blade Runner

Bryan · Post by **Bryan** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:35 am

FYI... If you click on the images, a new window will open and they will appear in normal size (giant size in most cases)

. I put in an automatic resize feature a few weeks back to keep them from showing up huge on the thread. They show up smaller than they really are in many cases.

Great information by the way.

Bryan

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 10:43 am

O.K. Bryan Thanks!!
Blade Runner

Blade Runner · Post by **Blade Runner** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 11:00 am

O.K. Bryan Thanks!!
Blade Runner