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Just had a conversation with a guy about his Case muskrat. In describing the blade condition he referred to the short blade???Am I to understand that the Case muskrat has 2 different length blades???

Good question. I believe that muskrat blades are of equal length. I also could be mistaken.
Someone with more knowledge might have a better answer.

Could this have been a 6247 of some sort?

A flea market seller showed me stag-handled 47 that had the clip and spey of a 6347, but only on one spring.

A moose maybe??

Ray

winst wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:46 pm Just had a conversation with a guy about his Case muskrat. In describing the blade condition he referred to the short blade???Am I to understand that the Case muskrat has 2 different length blades???

No; blades are identical length. It may be a used knife, blades can be "short" from sharpening.

Ask your friend if a tang is stamped MUSKRAT. They all have been for a long time. If it is then Knifoholic is right. Someone used an electric sharpener that was too coarse for thin Case blades.

It is stamped MUSKRAT.

Well, at least it now has a Muskrat blade anyway. I have seen 6247's with one California Clip and the other a short clip blade on the opposite end. But that is not a true Muskrat.

My guess is it may have sharpening damage as noted above.

hardman wrote: ↑Sun Mar 16, 2025 10:27 pm [...] I have seen 6247's with one California Clip and the other a short clip blade on the opposite end. [...]

Changing the topic to 6247s, this is copied and pasted from the AAPK reference section:

The two-bladed 47 pattern is usually placed in the double end jack knife category and measures 3 7/8" closed. As far as I know, they all have a 0 preceding the pattern number which denotes that the blades will be on opposite sides. The knives normally have a clip master blade and either a pen or spear secondary blade. The spear bladed versions will have a J following the pattern number. W.R. Case began producing them sometime before 1940.

Accompaning that quote is a picture of a 6247 with the usual clip and short spey blades. There's no mention of 6247s with short clip blades but Case has made many small batches of knives with non-standard features to get us to let them slip their fingers into our wallets another time.