Buck 110 third version

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I have a minty Buck 110 that is 1/2 inch thick at both bolsters. It has a brass spacer, inverted BUCK USA stamping (no pattern number), 2 small headed inlay rivets, and the Brass headed rocker rivet. I always believed this knife to be the 3rd version. Levine's, Guide third edition says ..."all fourth version 110's have the steel spacer' and " the earliest third version have a brass spacer." To confirm my belief that this is a third version, I sent pictures and a detailed description to buck, their email said they believe it to be a fourth version. Now I am totally confused, Levine said the thickness change happened on the 3rd version and the earliest 3rd had the brass spacer. Buck did not comment on the thickness and the data sheet do not mention thickness or when it changed. Anyone help clarify for me??
 
Buck uses the data sticky above for their versions.
Some other collector's use another set of data like Levine.

The easiest way is to see if the spacer is a separate piece or if it's integral to the frame.
You see two seams at the spacer would make it a fourth version according to Buck's data.
You see just one seam at the rear spacer would make it a third version according to the same data.

Welcome to the Buck forum...and post pictures if you can. :)
 
Thanks. The thickness is 1/2 inch, the spacer is separate, my problem is that Levine says one thing Buck something different. I remember when Levine was the bible. The early days at Buck were probably not well documented. If you believe Levine it has to be 3rd. Buck does not address the thickness question.
 
Welcome to the Buck forum. I think you are over worrying this. It sounds like Levine combined integral and separate brass spacers into one version while Joe Houser (factory historian) separated them into 2 different versions. Version identification schemes are just a tool for the collector to help put different variations into a timeline context. These kinds of schemes are not absolute or fixed, consider them works in progress that change as more information comes to light. No real right or wrong, just pick the scheme that makes the most sense to you and go with it. As this particular subforum is factory moderated, I suspect most people who play here go with the factory version as posted in the sticky above so that we are all on the same page when discussing these kinds of things.

Like Stumps said, we are a visual bunch here and would love for you to share pictures of your knife with us.
 
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Sorry, thought I was including pictures with my last post. Will have to figure out what I did wrong. And yes you are, probably correct, about over thinking this. Not all that important, someone suggested this was the place to get it figured out if that's possible. I just noticed that it says I'm not allowed to post attachments, guess that explains why the pictures didn't get through.
 
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