A guy at work brought in a knife he said he wanted me to see. It was given to him by his father and he is not a knife person so he wanted my opinion of the knife. When I saw it I told him that I believed it was a very special knife. Being not an owner of but a couple Bokers and no Congress knives, I am looking for help on dating this knife and is it rare or not. Searching the web and the large selling site I couldn't find that much info. I only found one on the large selling site and this one is in a lot better shape. The blade setup is the same one either end.
, I can tell you that it's definitely a more recent production post 1990 I believe, probably closer to sometime after 2000, it's catalog # is 70116BRN they come up often on auction sites, always listed as rare, but if you look you can always find one, there is actually a brand new one listed today, the scales are marble celluloid, at least that's what it looks like from the pic. The tang stamp has been used on most Boker traditional knives since 1960, but I have knives from 2013 that use 1891-1944 tang stamp and another that uses 1932 tang stamp, Boker loves using older tang stamps, this is why trying to date Bokers is a difficult thing to do, I have a Boker from the early 1900's those are much easier to date. You could contact Terry, I think Terry is no longer at Boker but goes by TJT on the forum, if you find out let us know as Boker info is pretty vague.