BUCKLOCKS: 531, 531 Ltd, 535

[bernard_levine]

Hi folks...

In a big collection that came in on consignment this summer, is this nice group of three BuckLocks:

• 531 Regular production
  
• 531 Buck Collectors Club Knife
  
• 535 Two-Blade (which I'd not seen before)

Each is unused, with box, brown leather sheath, and paperwork.

The club knife has an R engraved on one bolster. This is not the owner's initial. Anybody know what it means?

Are collectors still interested in these, or have they been forgotten?

I still remember the uproar at the time, when Buck withdrew them from sale, due to safety concerns about the lock mechanism.

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All three knives are marked with the Sawby patent number on the back of the blade.

Here are the cover and drawing pages from that patent.

It is a lot more complicated inside than it looks from the outside.

BRL..

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[110 Dave]

i had heard of all 3 of these but this is the first time i have seen them and
you do good picts!

there seems tol be a good following and
[[ some club with secreat hand shakes and stuff that i have yet to be invited in to ]]
a good market for them..

the ^ is the year mark for a blade made in 1988..
and the dot under it i can not recall what it was for..
the knives locking mech failed on what many call a spine wack test...
i was on the phone with a former buck employee today talking about these knives!
a 532 mid lock is all i have and the fellow i spoke with did not want to sell me his sawby..
i have both sheaths for the 531 but sadly no knives
Richard is completing information on buck models and hopes to include picts and i wandered if we could use a copy of your picts for it ?
thx dave

 

[bernard_levine]

Thanks, yes you can use my pics. Just quick scans, nothing fancy (see the sticky in my forum for suggestions on how to scan knives -- some day I should start doing it that way ).

BRL...

 

[Richard Matheny]

All of these Sawby version knives are hard to find and still have high values. The 531 about $200, the club knife about $250 and the 535 about $350 to $400.

 

[bernard_levine]

Thanks!

BRL...