All About Pocket Knives

Jerry, you know how to find the beauties.

Can't believe you made it 15 months, I feel good when I make it one. But at least you held out for an absolute sweetie. Congrats, fabulous knife.

Hey Jerry, glad to see you posting a great new addition to your knife collection. Hope we get to see a picture with the whole 11 1/2 lineup someday soon

Quite an accomplishment, completing a collecting goal. Definitely did that on a high note, what a great knife.

Thanks for all the compliments and congratulations. Appreciate it guys! Glad to get that one.
Regards, Jerry

Some great knives being posted!! I will post a few recent pickups. A tested 6318 with Early Rogers bone handles, a tested Greenbone 6318 with a rare punch blade, a XX mini trapper 6207 with early Rogers handles, and a W R Case & Son 6231 3/4 half saber Jack with Rogers handles. Thanks for looking!!!


Tom

Great pickups Tom. You have a great collection of old Case knives.


Larry

jlw257 wrote:Great pickups Tom. You have a great collection of old Case knives.


Larry

I can only agree, love the looks of a -18 pattern with a punch. And that long pull Saber Jack blows the lid off my noggin.

About to enter the Olderdogs branch of the Case Museum or something. Love that Mini Trapper and Saber Jack. Wow some beauty all around.

6231 3/4 half saber .............. do you think there's maybe another 9 or 10 of those left on the planet?

Great pickups Tom! All 4 are fine beauties! That 3/4 pattern is awesome. Can't recall how many different models they made but not more than a couple if I recall. I know to some extent you are a "catch and release" knifer but those are some for the stringers there!

Congrats my friend! Regards, Jerry

Have to agree, those are all beauties Tom. Especially like the 6318s with Rogers bone and the punch blade. Both rare versions of an otherwise fairly common pattern.

Ken

Thanks for the compliments, guys. I appreciate it. I like the old unusual ones that you seldom see. Jerry, you are right. Those are the ones I like to keep.


Tom

Jerry,

Glad for you that you completed your collection, great old knife to finish with.

All of the other knives posted are beauties too, especially that old '31.

M

Thanks much Steele!

I may try to pick up a few TESTED to add but my original goal is done. The TESTED swing guards are not cheap for ones that are in good shape but that is not my concern. Just hard for me to justify to myself when I am trying to downsize my collection (but will touch the swing guards) at this point.

Regards my friend. Hope life finds you well.

Jerry

Picked this one up at the Wilmington Ohio show. A 06263 Eisenhower Tested with Winterbottom bone handles. This one is not in the book. I was glad to find it. Sometimes it pays to look at a lot of knives. You never know what you might find.
Thanks for looking.
Tom

Another sweet find!

Sure that's not a 5263?

Nice one!

msteele6 wrote:Sure that's not a 5263?

Nice one1

That's a great question. The guy I bought it from thought it was stag. I thought it looked like Winterbottom to me but frankly wasn't sure. I asked the guy if I could take it across the hall and have Tony Foster look at it and he said sure. Tony immediately said it was Winterbottom and that he had never seen one. He said look at the little squiggly lines in the trail on the handle. Having it home for awhile I am definitely convinced it is Winterbottom. Hard to see in the pictures but if you look at the pile side of the knife you can see the lines.

Tom

Another rare find. Congrats Tom, like you said, it pays to get out there and look!

Ken

The loom fixer is red bone. Have one made in 1975. Fairly hard knife to come buy. You would be surprised how many so-called Case collectors do not know what a loom fixer is or how it came to be or what it was used for.

black1970 wrote:The loom fixer is red bone. Have one made in 1975. Fairly hard knife to come buy. You would be surprised how many so-called Case collectors do not know what a loom fixer is or how it came to be or what it was used for.

Which loom fixer is red bone? Did I miss something? No disrespect intended, just not following you.

Jerry

2010 Seahorse Whittler, Confederate Grey Bone, rock solid knife.

Ivoryman wrote:2010 Seahorse Whittler, Confederate Gray Bone, rock solid knife.

I have an identical twin to yours. I probably would have preferred a different color bone, but at the time this was the only one I could find at all the places I looked. The color has grown on me as time goes on though, so it'll stay.

Those are great looking knives, one of my favorite patterns.