No pattern stamp on this one
Handle material question
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Jethro Bodine
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Handle material question
An odd handled Case knife that I picked up awhile back, can anybody help this hillbilly out?
No pattern stamp on this one
No pattern stamp on this one
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Cowboy7130
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Re: Handle material question
Looks like stag ...
But no pattern number? Hmmm ...
But no pattern number? Hmmm ...
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Jethro Bodine
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Re: Handle material question
Yep, no pattern number, with a kinda off-center lookin badge. Kinda worried bout this one actually.
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Blade Runner
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Re: Handle material question
I'm more worried about that XX era shield with those handles. Can you open 'er up for us Jethro?Jethro Bodine wrote:Yep, no pattern number, with a kinda off-center lookin badge. Kinda worried bout this one actually.
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griz1200
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Re: Handle material question
Jethro...With the knife closed up, how long is it?
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Jethro Bodine
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Re: Handle material question
Its bout 2 15/16 closed, & I don't believe they made a small congress then. Plus,now that I got a good blown up pic, ain't no dots between the U.S.A , I got a turd fo sho.
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Re: Handle material question
That knife has clearly been apart and rehandled and wrong shield pinned on and not a very good job of it 
That blade dates it to 1977.
That blade dates it to 1977.
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Jethro Bodine
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Re: Handle material question
Thanks BIGHEAD, send you a pm. Maybe you could help me out some more.
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knifeaholic
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Re: Handle material question
That is a rehandled 6269. Case never made the 69 pattern in stag anyway, even in the XX era.
My guess is that someone took a 70's delrin 6269 and rehandled it with a XX era shield to replace the "composition" shield that would have been on a delrin handled knife.
That looks like a 4 dot '76 blade with one dot not fully stamped. It could be a 3 dot though. The 6269 was discontinued as of the 11/1/78 price list; but I don't think that any were actually made with two dots.
My guess is that someone took a 70's delrin 6269 and rehandled it with a XX era shield to replace the "composition" shield that would have been on a delrin handled knife.
That looks like a 4 dot '76 blade with one dot not fully stamped. It could be a 3 dot though. The 6269 was discontinued as of the 11/1/78 price list; but I don't think that any were actually made with two dots.
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Blade Runner
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Re: Handle material question
That stag wouldn't be right on any Case knife. This one kind of makes you wonder what the guy had on his mind when he put it together.
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