A little confused about a Gerber Mark II

[EYetter]

Some time ago I bought a Gerber Mark II from a private individual that was a 1996 production Cutlery Shoppe Edition. I researched the serial # (CS15xx) on GerberGuy's webpage and was astonished at what I found.

His page lists the knives in the serial range of CS1575-CS1975 as having NO offset blade, and HAVING a straight blade with coarse serrations.

This left me scratching my head as I stared at my knife and carefully inspected it to reassure myself that my knife DID have a 5 degree offset blade, and that instead of having serrations my knife HAD the very graceful narrow wasp blade configuration.

I've e-mailed the GerberGuy to ask if he has ever come across or heard of this particular configuration, and was wondering if anyone here ever had.

Anyone else have one of these in this configuration?

Is this a rare version of that serial range?

I would appreciate any information I can get.

TIA!

 

[Colt6731]

Cutlery Shoppe did a special run of these around the time you stated. Basicly they just had Gerber reproduce the original configuration. I cant remember their price but think it was somewhere around $100. You could also get a display block for it also. I would think these knives would have some kind of collector interest, but values should'nt be confused with original 1960s era manufacured MK IIs.

 

[EYetter]

I definitely didn't have any delusions of granduer. I just thought that it was unusual that this particular configuration seems to fall outside of the only documented configuration that I can locate.

Anyone else know anything about this particular run from the Cutlery Shoppe?

Or what the current collector value may be?

Thanks again!