Help me identify pattern number

[Miketokar]

Can someone help me identify this knife pattern number ?
I bought it in a junk shop it was marked as doctors knife .
Handle material may be a composite it does not feel like pearl

[Mumbleypeg]

Old knife - that stamp was used approximately 1914 - 1920. Handle material is likely celluloid, called cracked ice or imitation pearl. The pattern is likely 9282. The 82 was a small doctor's knife.

Nice find!

Ken

[Miketokar]

Old knife - that stamp as used approximately 1914 - 1920. Handle material is likely celluloid, called cracked ice or imitation pearl. The pattern is likely 9282. The 82 was a small doctor's knife.

Nice find!

Ken

Thank u sir .
Some one els said it may be a 086 pattern but he wasn’t sure .


Can you suggest a book for old case knife parents to me .
As I’m fairly new to case knife collecting .
Only book I have is collecting case knives By ( Steve Pfeiffer )
Great book but dose not have all the patterns .

[Mumbleypeg]

For older Case knives (especially Case Brothers, W.R. Case & Sons, Case Bradford, Tested and XX), and up to 1970 Sargent's Guide to Knives and Razors by Jim Sargent is a must-have resource. Lots of good pictures of older knives and patterns long ago discontinued. It's a completely different style than the Steve Pfeiffer book. IMHO they are complimentary and if you're interested in older knives you need both books. Sargent's 7th edition is the most recent but it's difficult to find and pricey if you do. But you can find a DVD version for a more reasonable price. The older editions are easier to find and they are good also, just not as much info as the 7th. Check abebooks.com or alibris.com.

BTW the 086 is a larger knife - 3-1/4 inches.

Ken

[Miketokar]

Thanks very much Ken

[jerryd6818]

The knife is referred to these days as a "Baby Doc" and Ken is correct, the pattern is '82'. Early on, I collected Doctor's Knives and when the Baby Docs were reintroduced around the turn of the millennium it was a new to me pattern. I thought I would like them until I got four of them in hand and decided they're not for me. At 2¾" closed, they're just too small for my taste.

[Miketokar]

Thank you Jerry

[jerryd6818]

I took the liberty of playing with your picture some and adding the tang stamp. The stamp would appear to make the knife 1905-1920. (left click on the images twice to expand them to full size)

[Miketokar]

Let me ask you this .
Does the circle case tested stamp on small pen blade chang the date to 1914-1920 ??

[jerryd6818]

That's the date range of that blade so since the blade is in the knife, it would follow that's the range of dates the knife was made.