All About Pocket Knives

Hello everybody! I am new to knife collecting and just tripped over this web page. I have learned a lot just here in just one day! I have a Case knife that belonged to my grandfather and I am trying to learn more about it. I would like to know when it was made, what type of Case knife is it, and about what it is worth to a collector, even though I have no intention of selling it. As you can see from the photos, it is not in mint condition!.... Any help would be apprectiated!!

Your knife is a trapper pattern, stag handles (burnt stag maybe?), and was made between 1940 and 1964. As far as collector value, whatever someone would pay for it, but the sentimental value must be priceless! I love seeing old knives like this with a story

Well here is my .02 worth.

How did grandad get the knife?
What did he do to make money all his life?
How many miles are on that knife when it was in his pocket?
Only if that knife could talk !!!!
If you ever sell it You will kick your butt later many times.
Trust me for I am old and I do NOT have a thing from my grand-dad or father.
I do drive a school bus now just for some thing to do. I think of haveing a bad accident with the bus and ask my self. What is the life of just one student worth? and then times that by 84 cuz its an 84 passenger bus.
I answer it like this. Just one student is priceless. (just ask the moms lawyer He will tell you they are price less). So I transport a price-less load 2 times a day. So give me and others LOTS of ROOM.
All this mite help you find the price or value of your grand-dads knife.

Very Kool knife and welcome to AAPK.

Hello Mikekoz, Welcome... your grandfathers knife is indeed a Case Trapper with stag handles (5254). It is what is known as a XX tested frame.(c.1940's) This particular variation is extremely rare and had your grandfather put it up you would be sitting on a gold mine(in excellent to mint condition they commonly fetch thousands of dollars). But alas it has been heavily used and I would rate the condition as poor. You would be lucky to get $400 or $500 for it. Still a rare example, thanks for sharing.
Take Care
Gary

I don't think I would rate it as poor, fair would be a better word. Blades are not broken, but show heavy wear, handles are there, but chipped, shield can still be read, and the tang stamp can still be read as well, probably has lost its, walk & talk. Knife has seen better days, but still has some life left in it.

You have a rare knife! Number 1 is was owned by your grandfather.
Number 2 it is a Case. Number 3 it is a trapper, a pattern most collectors love. Number 4 it has beaufiful stag handles.
Most of us here would give up our entire collection just to own a knife from our grandfather or father.
BE PROUD OF IT!

Turkey Creek Tom wrote:You have a rare knife! Number 1 is was owned by your grandfather.
Number 2 it is a Case. Number 3 it is a trapper, a pattern most collectors love. Number 4 it has beaufiful stag handles.
Most of us here would give up our entire collection just to own a knife from our grandfather or father.
BE PROUD OF IT!

Thank you for your reply, and everybody else's on my grandfather's
knife! I have had this knife since I was a kid. I have just started collecting and for the life of me I do not know how I have not lost it over the years! I am 46 now and I have had this knife forever, but only recently really thought about what it meant. This belonged to my father's father, and his taste in knives must have rubbed off on my dad, because I also have his knife, and like his father's, it is a Case Trapper (Mini Trapper, 1981 I believe). I picked up another old knife at a flea market recently and I am going to submit pictures of it to have all of you ID it for me. This is really a great web page!

Mike

Turkey Creek Tom wrote:You have a rare knife! Number 1 is was owned by your grandfather.
Number 2 it is a Case. Number 3 it is a trapper, a pattern most collectors love. Number 4 it has beaufiful stag handles.
Most of us here would give up our entire collection just to own a knife from our grandfather or father.
BE PROUD OF IT!

Take it from a man who never had the opportunity to even meet his grandfathers you do have something that I would gladly give up my entire collection for...Just the priceless memory of the knife owned by my grandfather...

Take care of yourself and your grandfathers knife,

Sunburst

All this talk about Grandfathers knives has made me lonely for my old "Papaw". So I figured I would get out his old stockman and give it a good coat of renwax and a few drops of Tuf-glide. I was given this knife by him when I was a freshman in high school. I left it at his house in a cigar box. There it stayed until he passed a few years later. After he passed my grandmother called me and said that he wanted to make sure I got his knife. So I did and have had it since, and always will. This old girl has worn out hundreds of blue round house overall pockets in her life. Still has the pocket lint in it to prove it.
I don't mean to kidnap your thread. I really just wanted to get this knife out and feel it in my hand.

Jeff

agteacher2 PRICE-LESS