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A trip to the Oldsmar, FL Flea Mkt produced this for me yesterday.
wazu013

That's a nice one Mike. Good find.

Hello All - I'm looking for any and all information about these limited edition Case knives produced for Philmont Scout Reservation in Cimarron New Mexico. If you happen to know when they were produced and how many were sold that would be most helpful. Tom

From top to bottom: 2000, 2008, 2008, 2005, 2007, and the bottom one is 2001 OR 2002.

Here ya go,bestgear.... http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/wr_ ... cation.php ...

Thnak you Old Hunter and JR.......very helpful indeed

I've been drooling over this one since it was posted up for auction....
Only issue is the very tip of the awl is broke....I have 2 of the repp's....never even held one of the OG's.

Whoa! There's your centerpiece JR! The flagship of the fleet!

WB

WB...it definitely would be.....if I could afford it. ...
I think its gonna hit close to $500...

I hear ya, JR. That tipped punch might be an issue on some knives, but probably not too much on that one. She's a beauty for sure.

WB

Bestgear those are some nice Philmonts

Thanks Garddog - I'm pretty proud of this part of my collection having been to Philmont twice as a youth and once as an adult (so far).

Went for a grand total of $544.05 ..that is with S&H included.
Man..that was a SWEET Scout..

johnnie, Did you win the knife? It looks good.

Stockman

Lordy...I wish!! ...

johnnierotten wrote:Went for a grand total of $544.05 ..that is with S&H included.
Man..that was a SWEET Scout..

I'll bet the seller isn't to thrilled . I had one with about 50% blade loss and it looked a whole lot rougher than this one and it sold for a few bucks less than this beauty. Of course that was about 6 years ago.
wazu013

Yep...that’s a hard pattern to find in that good of condition.

This is nowhere as spectacular as that beautiful Remington (and very far from the price), but I thought it was interesting.

It appears that the liner has sides that cover the edge of the handles; almost as if the liners are trays into which the handle material is molded.

Does anyone have any info on this knife?

Hey Dale, Dimitri lead me to this when I posted a similar knife over on the IKCO thread.
http://www.google.com/patents/US1802990 ... 90&f=false
Mine was a 2-blade jack with solid N/S bolster inserts at each end.

WB

Thank you
I think that is like mine.

Yep, another example of a depression era patent, trying to cut costs. Nobody did it better then Imperial. These actually pre-date most of the shell handle patents i've seen. You don't see many of them, so I think it was a pretty short lived process.
Looks like Colonial picked up on it somewhere down the line, I have a couple of Ambassador fob knives built like these. I'm pretty sure they were built by Colonial, but later on in the 30's or maybe early 40's.

WB

Case even made one similar that Steve Pfeiffer said they sold usually as a skeleton.
Here is a link to the thread where I posted it and Steve's answer to me telling me about it.
This one is not a Scout, but it seems to use a similar process on the handles.

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... =4&t=29685

Now that you mention it, I remember reading that. I'll bet the Case is a much better built knife then the Imperial/Colonial versions. I like that Case, it'd be neat to put together a collection of all the different handle materials Steve mentioned.

WB

whitebuffalo58 wrote:Now that you mention it, I remember reading that. I'll bet the Case is a much better built knife then the Imperial/Colonial versions.
WB

It might be, but I like the handle material on the Imperial better. It doesn't show all the scratched like the Case does.
I will also bet you the Imperial takes and holds an edge better.

They may very well do that.

WB