Buck 100

orvet

orvet

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I met a fellow who says he has a knife he found on a site of a WWII battle in the Marshall Islands. He says the tang says Buck 100. Is this historically correct, would there have been a Buck model 100 in 1944-1945?
Does anyone have a pic of a 100 they could post?
The knife is for sale for $100. Is that a good price if it is in reasonable condition?

Thanks,
Dale
 
If it is what you say it is I would think it is worth way more than $100.00. That said, I am not familiar with the Buck 100. Can you post a pic?
 
dale,
first one has to be carefull of conterfits and clames.
i personaly do not know how to ID sauch a year knife.
knives were made by buck and were stamped buck.
i do not know when the knives were first stamped with a number.
the one to realy ask is Joe who has a nice collection of pre incourpation knives. (he is off for the holladays so unless he checks this site at home you wont hear from him tell likely tues)
a few others have extensive pre 63 knives also but i dont know them.
i do know one but he dont do email much at all.
i have a number of images of early bucks that i have collected that date back to the 40's.
if you would send me a image of it i maby can match it to one.
IF this is real the price is not bad at all. If it is not then it is worth very little except as a example of a conterfit, and some collectors do have examples of conterfit knives in their collection...
i started to do so my self once but have not gotten that far in my main collection yet ..
 
Thanks guys for the answers.
I have not seen the knife yet. It is owned by an older gentleman who keeps it in his tackle box (he told me). He lived for 25-30 years in the Marshall Islands. He isn't a collector of knives, so far as I know. He seems like a trustworthy fellow who works in a local store to supplement his Social Security.

I have a few Bucks (what collector doesn't) but they are not my area of expertise. I have not seen a Buck 100 or for that matter any of the older bucks. The oldest one I have in my collection is a fixed blade I bought new in the 70s for a hunting knife, before I began collecting.

Hopefully, someone will come along who can post a picture so I will know what to look for.

Thanks again & have a great Thanksgiving.
Dale
 
OK,
I saw the knife today. I kind of felt sorry for the old fellow. The knife was obviously not a WWII vintage. I (not being an expert on Bucks) do not know when the 110 was first produced, but this was obviously a 110, as per the tang stamp. The stamp was: BUCK / (two dots) 110 (two dots).
I told him that I thought the 110 was first produced in the 1960s.

Does anyone know when they used that tang stamp?

Thanks for all your help. Sorry for the false alarm. I guess a guy has to follow the rumors a special knife............that is what knife nuts do. :D

Thanks again
Dale
 
...orvet...1974 to 1980 for the 2 dots...and I just realized you said 2 dots on either side of the 110. Those 4 dots would date it between 1981 and 1986...
 
orvet said:
I met a fellow who says he has a knife he found on a site of a WWII battle in the Marshall Islands....would there have been a Buck model 100 in 1944-1945?
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Well, he didn't say he found it during the battles...just that it was at the site of battles...

Not worth much, IMHO...especially if it's been in a tackle box... :rolleyes:
 
Maybe it's the "Army" one from that episode of "Lost" .
That's a bummer though when ya gotta correct someone that truly believes in the legend of whatever they got.
 
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