All About Pocket Knives

1. What is the value of the 2 knives above and what is a good price guide to go and buy for knives...

2. Do either of these have a low production or # of Knives made???
I was told the red congress was kinda rare from a couple guys selling case knives and the red was really popular!!

3. How much does it hurt the overall value if there in GOOD used condition and no significant damage or anything but you dont have the box for a knive!!!



Each knife is curretly worth about what they sold for in 2000, around 50.00. I do agree with Mike though, in the near future the 2000 knives will certainly go up in value because it was a year with a tang stamp change.

Both knives were regular production and there was several thousand produced. Red is popular but it isn't rare.

Used condition really does hurt the value, at least by 50%. If it was a vintage knife, or a rare one it wouldn't hurt as much but since it's a pretty current model it doesn't have much collector value.

For some reason boxes on newer knives does seem to affect the value. It doesn't for me, I collect knives not boxes, but a lot of the newer collectors really want the box.

The 8th edition of Parker's Price Guide is at the binders as we speak, should have them available in the next week or so. I did the pricing for Case from 1971 through 2000. There will be some knives missing though, we couldn't get all of the SFO's inculded in this edition but we will get them in the next one which will be out in about 2 years.

You will see a lot of changes for the pricing that I did, most were lowered in value. I tried to make them more realistic, Jim had a lot of knives way up there. If any of you guys collect delrin handles or Sodbusters, your gonna be mad at me.