rhino
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Howdy, all!
I recently found a small stash of my dad's knife collection. Most of it was junk, but a few noteworthy pieces included a pristine Case 63087. The tang stamp on the clip point blade is three lines:
Case XX
. . SS . .
USA
Am I correct that this represents 1986 manufacture, since there are four dots total (two on either side of the stylized SS), with 1980 being ten dots, subtracting one dot for each year thereafter.
I don't use a smart phone, so I don't have a handy way to take pics. I'll try to get some soon. It's small by my preferences (I prefer large stockman pattern), but it looks unused. It was definitely never sharpened after it left the Case factory. All three blade snap open and closed nicely.
When I first found it, I thought it was a classic stockman pattern, but it has the spay blade where the sheepsfoot should be and a pen blade where the spey blade normally rests opposite the two other blades. Does the pattern have a special name, or is it just among the many "stockman" variants?
I recently found a small stash of my dad's knife collection. Most of it was junk, but a few noteworthy pieces included a pristine Case 63087. The tang stamp on the clip point blade is three lines:
Case XX
. . SS . .
USA
Am I correct that this represents 1986 manufacture, since there are four dots total (two on either side of the stylized SS), with 1980 being ten dots, subtracting one dot for each year thereafter.
I don't use a smart phone, so I don't have a handy way to take pics. I'll try to get some soon. It's small by my preferences (I prefer large stockman pattern), but it looks unused. It was definitely never sharpened after it left the Case factory. All three blade snap open and closed nicely.
When I first found it, I thought it was a classic stockman pattern, but it has the spay blade where the sheepsfoot should be and a pen blade where the spey blade normally rests opposite the two other blades. Does the pattern have a special name, or is it just among the many "stockman" variants?
