A very, very, very rare Case XX baby/tiny toothpick, a complete customization by Bill Lewis back in November of 2006.
He basically took a regular 610096, completely disassembled it, engraved/filed/polished all the parts, and reassembled it with buffalo horn handles. It's a mighty fine and special little knife, of which, I haven't seen another one like it, since I purchased it over a year ago. Feel I've had it for long enough, time to move it onto another collector...
Here's a short description of all the work he done to it:
Polished Spring & Liners.
Filed Spring with cross-hatching & Harley crosses.
Filed Blade Spine with cross-hatches.
Jimped liners.
Re-handled with dark buffalo horn handles.
Name and date engraved on liner.
If you can see in my pictures, both horns handles chipped out, 1 small piece each. Not hard to imagine, buffalo horn, as you know, is very brittle stuff to work with, so probably when he was working with the stuff, it caused a lot of problems. At least it gives the knife a lot of character
.Other then that, a superb example of custom knife workmanship.
I think $80 plus shipping, or trade for a nice fix blade, is a fair price for a custom knife. Or if you think i'm asking too much, shoot me a email [email protected] or pm, and we can talk.
Thank you!
Willy