124/122... or ???

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ItsTooEarly

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Hello All, I got this 124/122 the other day and I love it... My first one... I don't know much about it... Thanks for looking... ITE

124/122... Click on the pics to see them and click on them again to make them bigger...















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Nice Knife! I am dealing on one exactly like that one. Can you tell us when it was made?
 
Colt, I'll give it a shot . There have been numerous articles written on these models 122/124 as they don't follow the pattern of the 100 series . So, the 3 items that allow us to unlock this ones genalogy is: the swivel sheath, partial serrated blade and lanyard hole . With those items it can be pin pointed fairly close as that model was only made w/ those items in 1971,72 and first of 73 .With the stamping it further narrows it to the last two dates . Blade steel is 440C, aluminum or stainless guard and butt (2 piece) . A great find and better knife of Buck's . Thanks for the photos . DM
 
nice knife TIE
i bought one new at the BX in fall of 1971
it has a stainless guard and pommel
with both striation and hole it is limited to
I belive
a 6 mounth manfucture period!
it is not come on to very offten
and is worth 50% more then if it had only one or the other
the remainder of the production time with stainless guard...
if you got it got less then 100 you did really good pilgrim..
i say 100 as i know what you will pay for a 110! (11$)
;)
 
I think that I can narrow the date down a little more. In 1971, they did make the knife with the Grey/Black Buckarta (334Dave's "striations") but apparently only in a 122 and with only BUCK USA on the blade. It was discontinued approximately Mid-year.

In 1972, the Grey/black Buckarta was again made but probably only as a 124 (Joe says there might be some stamped 122) The stamp (as on your blade) was the unique upside down three liner. It did have the stainless steel pommel and guard with the lanyard hole in the pommel. Your knife is most definitely a 1972 knife.. I might add that only in 1972 did Buck offer the Grey/Black Buckarta only. In the other years it was offered alternatively with the more frequently seen black Buckarta scales.

In 1973, both the 122 and the 124 reappeared with either black Bukarta or the Grey/Black Buckarta, but the three liner was "tip up."

It is one of my very favorite 124s.

CAVEAT: This information is subject to change by the many more knowledgeable members of this forum.

Telechronos:):):)
 
Tele, Good work . I was rushed and didn't take time to look closely at the photos or I would have caught the inverted stamp . Thanks . DM
 
Thanks again guys, I know alot more about this 124 now... It's going to look good with my few other 124s.... ITE.....
 
ITE!
Nice!
Late '72 and yes there are '122' -stamped knives exactly like this one of yours. I have the carbon copy to this one and the '122' model as well.....so at least one was made, right?
The serrations are the large examples, which were later in the line, from the small serrations typically found on two-liners only. Lanyard holes were often the norm too....but not in every case.
Just some musings on what really makes collecting Bucks a lot of fun!

Dave
 
gd526 said:
ITE!
Nice!
Late '72 and yes there are '122' -stamped knives exactly like this one of yours. I have the carbon copy to this one and the '122' model as well.....so at least one was made, right?
Lanyard holes were often the norm too....but not in every case.


Dave
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Please post pictures of the 1972 122 and also a 1972 without lanyard holes. That would solve a mystery that has haunted me.

Telechronos:):):)
 
Telechronos said:
I think that I can narrow the date down a little more. In 1971, they did make the knife with the Grey/Black Buckarta (334Dave's "striations") but apparently only in a 122 and with only BUCK USA on the blade. It was discontinued approximately Mid-year.

In 1972, the Grey/black Buckarta was again made but probably only as a 124 (Joe says there might be some stamped 122) The stamp (as on your blade) was the unique upside down three liner. It did have the stainless steel pommel and guard with the lanyard hole in the pommel. Your knife is most definitely a 1972 knife.. I might add that only in 1972 did Buck offer the Grey/Black Buckarta only. In the other years it was offered alternatively with the more frequently seen black Buckarta scales.

In 1973, both the 122 and the 124 reappeared with either black Bukarta or the Grey/Black Buckarta, but the three liner was "tip up."

It is one of my very favorite 124s.

CAVEAT: This information is subject to change by the many more knowledgeable members of this forum.

Telechronos:):):)
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well here my "facts" and "data" disagree with the majority of thought
mine has buck 124 usa point down on the blade
small striations and lanyard hole
and i bought it in october of 1971 i have another i bought in dec before i left
these facts do not agree with accepted posted information
and it is ok with me

i bought this when i was in great lakes NTC the year i grad HS
the one ITE has is a twin to my two
so it shall remain a great question how i got the knife at the BX
when it was not made tell late 72
my youngest brother may remember me bringing them home
i shall ask him if he does and if so then i will have a witness..
 
You've certainly given the authorities something to think about, Dave.

Good work.

This is why I love reading this collecting stuff......just when people are certain that they know something, some new findings show up that disagree with the previously known facts.

Happens over and over. This is not said to make fun of anybody, just to say again how amazingly complicated and unpredictable this knife-collecting can be.

That's what makes it such fun.

BTW......I didn't realize you were such a young whipper-snapper. By '71 I was done with my Navy career.
 
Wow Dave ! A three line inverted stamp in 1971 ! I'd like to hear Joe's comment on this . DM
 
334dave said:
well here my "facts" and "data" disagree with the majority of thought
mine has buck 124 usa point down on the blade
small striations and lanyard hole
and i bought it in october of 1971 i have another i bought in dec before i left
these facts do not agree with accepted posted information
and it is ok with me

i bought this when i was in great lakes NTC the year i grad HS
the one ITE has is a twin to my two
so it shall remain a great question how i got the knife at the BX
when it was not made tell late 72
..
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Now I have two sets of pictures that I would like to see posted here. 334Dave's referenced above and GD526 Dave's 1972 122 and his 1972 124 with no pommel hole.

By the way, 334 Dave, while you quote my post I don't think that anywhere in it did I suggest that the 1972 124s were made "tell late 72." You will have to challenge GD526 Dave on that one.
 
Thanks again everyone.... So do I have a 71 or 72... I would like to see some pics of your 124s like mine, too... ITE .... :confused:
 
ItsTooEarly said:
Thanks again everyone.... So do I have a 71 or 72... I would like to see some pics of your 124s like mine, too... ITE .... :confused:
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Sorry for not responding sooner.

I was hoping that the two Daves, 334Dave and GD526, would post pictures of their respective one-off knives as that would help.

Until Joe Houser or conclusive pictures prove otherwise, I still believe that yours is a 1972. Remember my Caveat in my earlier post however.

I do have a 124 identical to yours, box and all, but your pictures are so fine that it would serve little purpose to post mine. If for some reason, you still want it, I'll do so.

Telechronos:):):)
 
Thanks Telechronos, I always like to see pics of other collectors knives... Is your box a two piece or one??? I wish the two Daves would post some pics too... So I have a 1972, 124 that's cool... I wish I had the box for it... Thanks again... ITE
 
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