Buck Ultima I 507white Mother-of Pearl, What Year Manufactured?

[Notnats]

The blade stamp on the Buck Ultima I 507 white Mother-of Pearl in question is BUCK 507• U.S.A. I cannot find the year of manufacture for a model number followed by a “dot”. The owner of the knife purchased it from a reputable dealer in 1994. I see a 1994 Buck is identified by a backslash \ following the model number. No where can I find where a “dot” was used. The quality of this knife tells me it is not a fake. Can someone educate me.

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[DeSotoSky]

Your first post...Welcome to the Buck forum. The Buck Ultima first appears in the 1982 catalog but was shipping as early as October 1980. It is in the catalog thru 1995. Date codes start in 1986 so all that can inarguably be said about your knife is that the "blade" was made before 1986. Don't get too hung up on the dot. Dots in and of themselves were not date codes but used as internal factory markings for manufacturing process changes. Discussions about dots is a subject unto itself as they could mean different things on different models. In the case of your knife, the process change was probably that the blade was fineblanked. In a knife such as the Ultima there could be long intervals between the time the blade was made, when the knife was assembled, and ultimately how long it sat in a warehouse or hardware store before it was ultimately sold.

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[David Martin]

Nots, Welcome. 1980 is the correct date for your Ultima I. No one is really sure about the meaning of that dot. Mine does not have it. There are other models that had dots on them. Some we have dug up the story on others we cannot find anything about. Yours is one. DM

 

[Notnats]

Thank you both for your reply. This knife is one of four new mint Buck knives from a friends estate. Not knowing zilch about knives I have had to educate myself and I came to the right place for this one. Mostly the estate collection consists of Case knives. I will be listing knives from the estate on eBay. The starting price will be 20 percent above the original price.