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Does anyone have any idea when Case started putting "for flesh only" on their spey blades?

Can't tell you just when they started, but I have a 6347 stockman from 1970 that has it on the spey blade.

Phil

I don't know exactly either; but is on the USA era stockman knives.

Paul

knfmn wrote:Does anyone have any idea when Case started putting "for flesh only" on their spey blades?

From what I have seen, it began during the CASE XX era, most likely the early 1950's.

The only patterns of stockman that I have seen with the etching are - all '47 pattern variants, all '18 pattern variants, (of course I mean the 47 and 18 patterns that had the spey blade as one of the blades) and the 63087 Sp Pen. For some reason they never did it on the other stock patterns that had a spaey, like the 6344 HP, and the '92 and the '75 patterns. It ended by about '82-'83 though they have brought it back on some recent SFO's.

There was also the M110 which was a metal handled knife with a spey blade that had the etch.

Here is a 3347 from the XX era thanks to Mike (knifeswapper)

I got a '75 pattern with it on it but it is a recent SFO.