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I bought this at an auction with a bunch of older Case knives. Does the tang stamp look authentic? I looked through my Case book but haven’t been able to determine the model. Any help is appreciated!
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I am not an expert in authentication, but that looks highly suspicious to me. It looks like a single blade Trapper. But I do not trust the tang stamp, and I have never seen that kind of scale - probsbly celluloid - on a CASE TESTED XX knife.
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I did find this in the Case book I have but it is another style
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DMLEATH wrote: Sun Apr 03, 2022 12:57 am I did find this in the Case book I have but it is another style
Could you please explain this post?
I don't understand what you mean. You found "this" but it's "another style".
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I am trying to load a picture but no luck so far
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Sorry about the clarity of my statement. I found the above picture in my book on Case knives that shows a Case Tested knife with Celluloid handles (different pattern than mine)
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I don't see anything about the knife that would lead me to believe it is authentic. Blade, stamp, handle material all look bad to me.
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I bought it at an auction from a collector that passed away and he had quite a few older Case knives. I wondered about it and should have passed it by
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Doesn't look authentic to me and there is no mention that I can find of a single blade trapper pattern from the Tested era. If the closed length of the knife is 4 1/8 inches Then it would be a 54 pattern which is called The Trapper. Probably a fantasy knife made in someones basement.
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I don’t like the knife or the stamp. The celluloid on the OP knife is not the same as the one in the picture, which is glitter stripe celluloid.

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The OP knife is junk, made out of a Queen trapper.
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The tang stamp does look a bit off, and the tang itself looks to have been ground down.
The shape of the frame also does not look like a Case frame to me (though none of my Case trappers are from the Tested era, so I may be wrong there.)
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