CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
I have this M1059L SS Executive Lockback and I need help identifying the year of the tang stamp.
Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
Anyone got an idea what year?
Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
It's definitely post 1989, so sometime in the 1990s or 2000s (it's not particularly old, if that's what you're trying to determine). You may need to contact Case Customer Service if you want to know the exact year this "undated" tang stamp was used. Sorry I can't be more helpful.DR_MAGOO wrote:Anyone got an idea what year?
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Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
I'm gonna make a guess that it's late 1990s. As Q says, it's not real old, as evidence by the "lightning s" (wasn't used earlier than 1980) and shape of the tail of the C says 1990s to me. http://www.wrcase.com/case_college/tang_stamps/ There may be a dot or two hidden under the bolster. Don't see that pattern much so not sure where the dots were located on those blades. Or maybe that one just didn't get stamped with the dots.
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Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
Thanks Q and Ken. I know that it is not old. The stamping, I believe, is from the '90's. Although there are not dots to indicate what year.
Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
I've actually seen the same knife & stamp previously (and there's one currently for sale on eBay), so I'm pretty sure it's not a factory error or missing some dots. I have also seen the M1059L pattern with two other style date stamps, one was a 1995 and the other one was from the 2000 era, so my best guess for the date of your knife would be between 1990 - 1994.
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We are all just prisoners here of our own device.
In the master's chamber they gather for the feast.
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast.
(Eagles: Hotel California)
~Q~
In the master's chamber they gather for the feast.
They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast.
(Eagles: Hotel California)
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Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
That one has me stumped. As others have said, it looks like a 1993-1999 stamp. But there should be dots below the long tail C. You should inquire with Case.
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Re: CASE Tang Stamp Help Needed, What year?
Got this from Case this afternoon.
Re: What Year?
Postby Katie Shonts » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:32 pm
Hello,
This is the tang stamp that appears on the '059L exclusively since 2010.
Thanks,
Katie
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Re: What Year?
Postby Katie Shonts » Mon Oct 16, 2017 3:32 pm
Hello,
This is the tang stamp that appears on the '059L exclusively since 2010.
Thanks,
Katie
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Case Historian & Archivist