CASE 6465

[LKSKNIVES]

My dad was a big knife collector Remington was his favorite. He had some nice old knives from the different manufacturers. This 6465 is one example.

[treefarmer]

Wow, that's a new on on me!
Bet that is a handful.
Love seeing knife patterns I've never seen before.
Treefarmer

[stockman]

A really nice knife!

Harold

[rea1eye]

Nice knife. Your dad took very good care of his knives.

Bob

[Mumbleypeg]

Nice knife, fairly rare, with killer Rogers bone handle covers. To my knowledge that pattern was discontinued some time during the TESTED XX era. Sad they haven’t made any knives with that worm-groove bone jigging in decades.

Ken

[eveled]

Wow! Nice knife. I’ve never seen that pattern before thanks for sharing.

[wlf]

Nice knife, fairly rare, with killer Rogers bone handle covers. To my knowledge that pattern was discontinued some time during the TESTED XX era. Sad they haven’t made any knives with that worm-groove bone jigging in decades.

Krn

Why is that called Roger's bone? Very high dollar knife I'd say though.

[Mumbleypeg]

Nice knife, fairly rare, with killer Rogers bone handle covers. To my knowledge that pattern was discontinued some time during the TESTED XX era. Sad they haven’t made any knives with that worm-groove bone jigging in decades.

Krn

Why is that called Roger's bone? Very high dollar knife I'd say though.

There’s an entire thread about Rogers bone here: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kn ... hp?t=45098

It’s characterized by the randomness of the jigging pattern and the telltale “worm groove” pattern often present. The Rogers Bone Company owned the jigging equipment and supplied bone to several cutleries (and manufactures of other goods). They ceased making the bone around the early to mid-1960s, about the time Delrin started being used by many cutleries. I’ve read that Rogers became a significant supplier of Delrin but I’m not sure about the validity of that.

Ken

[LKSKNIVES]

I thought it said in Sargent it is green bone. I am not the knife collector that was my father. I just kind of look through the books he had

[Mumbleypeg]

I thought it said in Sargent it is green bone. I am not the knife collector that was my father. I just kind of look through the books he had

Rogers bone refers to the jigging pattern. Greenbone refers to the dye color. Rogers supplied undyed jigged bone slabs, which cutleries dyed, then cut and hafted (sanded) to fit the respective knife's frame. Some places in Sargent's reference "Rogers greenbone". Both Rogers bone and greenbone can exist together, or separately.

Ken

[FRJ]

This 6465 is one example.

What a beautiful old knife. I have never seen that pattern before either.
Thanks for showing it.
Please show more.

[wlf]

Nice knife, fairly rare, with killer Rogers bone handle covers. To my knowledge that pattern was discontinued some time during the TESTED XX era. Sad they haven’t made any knives with that worm-groove bone jigging in decades.

Krn

Why is that called Roger's bone? Very high dollar knife I'd say though.

There’s an entire thread about Rogers bone here: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kn ... hp?t=45098

It’s characterized by the randomness of the jigging pattern and the telltale “worm groove” pattern often present. The Rogers Bone Company owned the jigging equipment and supplied bone to several cutleries (and manufactures of other goods). They ceased making the bone around the early to mid-1960s, about the time Delrin started being used by many cutleries. I’ve read that Rogers became a significant supplier of Delrin but I’m not sure about the validity of that.

Ken

This is Rogers bone and doesn't look at all like the OP to me ? The OP looks like regular older Case jigging , but I'm not a Case guy anymore,

[Mumbleypeg]

IMHO the Rogers bone examples you've shown are typical of what’s found (but not exclusively) on smaller Case patterns. Folding hunters and some other larger patterns, especially Case, Cattaraugus and some other knives, sometimes used a Rogers bone having what Rogers called ‘Indian Trail” jigging. Some call it “worm groove” jigging - probably a more politically correct terminology in today’s world.

That’s as it was explained to me anyway. I suppose perhaps it’s subjective - I wasn’t there when the bone was acquired. I don’t recall seeing those descriptions in manufacturers’ old catalogs, but maybe someone has. In references such as Sargent’s 7th edition, in the sections on Case Bradford, Case Tested etc one can find descriptions such as “greenbone”, Rogers bone, and “worm groove” bone. I may be wrong, if so it won’t be the first time.

Ken

[wlf]

Like I said Ken, I'm not a Case guy anymore and have forgotten what I once thought I knew.

[knifeaholic]

Seems as though there is a lot of confusion about what true "Rogers" bone is.

Maybe someone can help clear up the confusion by posting some photos of antique pocketknives have jigged brown bone handles that are NOT Rogers bone. That may help educate us as to what does and does not constitute Rogers bone.

So if you can, please post photos of knives that meet all of the following three criteria:

#1 - Antique (pre-1940 era) knife.
#2 - Handles are jigged brown bone.
#3 - Handles are NOT Rogers bone.

[RalphAlsip]

Seems as though there is a lot of confusion about what true "Rogers" bone is.

Maybe someone can help clear up the confusion by posting some photos of antique pocketknives have jigged brown bone handles that are NOT Rogers bone. That may help educate us as to what does and does not constitute Rogers bone.

So if you can, please post photos of knives that meet all of the following three criteria:

#1 - Antique (pre-1940 era) knife.
#2 - Handles are jigged brown bone.
#3 - Handles are NOT Rogers bone.

Candidate for jigged bone that is not Rogers bone - Case Tested XX 61050.

[knifeaholic]

Seems as though there is a lot of confusion about what true "Rogers" bone is.

Maybe someone can help clear up the confusion by posting some photos of antique pocketknives have jigged brown bone handles that are NOT Rogers bone. That may help educate us as to what does and does not constitute Rogers bone.

So if you can, please post photos of knives that meet all of the following three criteria:

#1 - Antique (pre-1940 era) knife.
#2 - Handles are jigged brown bone.
#3 - Handles are NOT Rogers bone.

Candidate for jigged bone that is not Rogers bone - Case Tested XX 61050.

Nice knife, but does not meet my #2 - the handles are green bone, not brown bone.