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Case XX Pocket Knife 6318 HP SS ?? Seems like a badge variant??
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2023 8:39 pm
by YOUFOUNDADEAL
Found this knife today. It looks strange to me. The badge has no circle around "CASE"?? and the tang stamp looks weird. What you all think? Typical? Age?
Re: Case XX Pocket Knife 6318 HP SS ?? Seems like a badge variant??
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2023 9:24 pm
by Mumbleypeg
Knife is perfectly fine. That is called the "delrin shield" or “composition shield”. Used on knives with delrin and other non-bone or non-stag handle covers. According to Steve Pfeiffer’s book
Collecting Case Knives that shield was introduced in 1974 in response to collector confusion about the appearance of bone handles compared to Delrin. So they put a different shield on those knives.
I can’t see enough of the tang stamp in your picture to determine the age. When the blade is open 90 degrees (half open) you should see some dots, which are the date code system. You can determine the age yourself by comparing that (the number of dots) with the charts shown here
https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/ca ... tification in the AAPK Research section (click on Research in the header at the top of this page).
Ken
Re: Case XX Pocket Knife 6318 HP SS ?? Seems like a badge variant??
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 12:36 pm
by rea1eye
Never knew Case made a Delrin or composition shield. Learn something new here
every day.
Bob
Re: Case XX Pocket Knife 6318 HP SS ?? Seems like a badge variant??
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:40 pm
by YOUFOUNDADEAL
Thanks for the info.
Re: Case XX Pocket Knife 6318 HP SS ?? Seems like a badge variant??
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:50 pm
by YOUFOUNDADEAL
Best picture of the dots i can get. Only 2 can be actually seen without maybe removing the blade.
Re: Case XX Pocket Knife 6318 HP SS ?? Seems like a badge variant??
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2023 6:58 pm
by YOUFOUNDADEAL
70's i think upon looking at a date guide