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GEC #25 barlow with some mammoth scales. Check out that side and end grain on the ivory.
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Evan - great work - indeed!

I like to look of the mammoth ivory. The grain and the general look! Congratz on that great skills :)
 
Here's a bit of trivia, in the 1970's, Case wanted to offer a budget line of knives, and the Colonial Knife Co in Rhode Island was contracted to manufacture 5 different patterns under the Durango brand. The only hint that W.R. Case was involved was that the boxes these knives came in had the Case logo. The steel is high carbon, the bolsters were brass plated, and the handles were cheap plastic (not Delrin). Anyway, the Barlow, well, is a Barlow....

 
Here's a real nice old Case from the XX era. This one was a board knife, or salesman sample, as can been seen by the tell tale line down the mark side cover. What's kinda interesting about this one is that it was exposed to the sun and over time what was once considered a red bone cover is now a green bone cover. So now we've got a green bone cover on the mark side and a darker red bone cover on the pile side. Typically, green bone makes the knife more desirable and if ya got two different covers on the same knife, well that's just cool as heck IMHO!!!

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Alnamvet68 said:
Here's a bit of trivia, in the 1970's, Case wanted to offer a budget line of knives, and the Colonial Knife Co in Rhode Island was contracted to manufacture 5 different patterns under the Durango brand. The only hint that W.R. Case was involved was that the boxes these knives came in had the Case logo. The steel is high carbon, the bolsters were brass plated, and the handles were cheap plastic (not Delrin). Anyway, the Barlow, well, is a Barlow....

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New information to me! Cool!!

Where did you find that knife Alnamvet??
 
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