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I am gonna guess since the 60s…but I am just guessing.
From the 40's on with yellow composition/delrin thoughWhy guess, when the AAPK source I posted said "some time before 1915"?
With 'delrin' specifically, Case didn't start using that in any form or color until 1967. Coincided with their release of the original 2138 Sod Buster in black Delrin.For how long has this pattern been around with yellow delrin scales?
Really curious since it is one of my top three favorite pocket knives.
Makes sense to not marking carbon anything when it was the normWith 'delrin' specifically, Case didn't start using that in any form or color until 1967. Coincided with their release of the original 2138 Sod Buster in black Delrin.
Anything prior to 1967 would've been some other synthetic material, otherwise called 'composition'.
Edited to add:
With regards to the 'CV' designation, I don't think Case started including 'CV' in the pattern names or pattern# stamp until the 1990s or so. Anything in plain carbon steel, prior to then, was only stamped with the base pattern#. And stainless patterns were always stamped either 'SS' or 'STAINLESS'.
I really want to love the Case peanut and I sort of do, but I just can't find a proper example in good enough condition for a reasonable price.I have a 3220 from the 1950-1964 era. That would be the latter part of the 'CASE XX' era, post-1950, during which time they began including the pattern stamp on blades.
This knife might be as old as I am (60) or maybe older. But it looks in much, much better shape than I am these days. Pristine old pocketknives might be ageless. Me, not so much.
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How large is that fine knife?Along the same lines as mentioned by Ed above, I have a 6265 SAB Folding Hunter with a blade date-stamped from the 1965-'69 era. This is sometimes called the 'U.S.A.' era, as that's when Case started stamping 'U.S.A.' on their blades. Even with the '65-'69 stamp on the blade, the frame itself is the slightly different handle pattern carried over from the 'XX' era (1940-'64) Folding Hunter, with a deeper finger grip indent just aft of the pivot-end bolster. It's known as the 'XX-era' frame for that pattern. So, it bridges the transition between those two eras in Case's history, which I think is kind of cool and also more likely pins down it's time of manufacture to very early in the 'U.S.A. era' period, probably in 1965.
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As compared to the Peanut, it's a BEAST.How large is that fine knife?
I'd not even noticed the more central location of the nail nick on the current version, as compared to the older ones with the nick aft of the peak.I really want to love the Case peanut and I sort of do, but I just can't find a proper example in good enough condition for a reasonable price.
I bought a new 3220 not even thinking about it, but I just cannot get past the nail nick position on the current examples.
It makes the knife look like it has a sharp peak on the spine, and it reminds me of a cheap Pakistani Frost Cutlery from the flea market.
WowAs compared to the Peanut, it's a BEAST.![]()
5-1/4" closed, and about 9-1/8" overall with the main clip blade opened.