Case tang stamps

[Blue Sky]

Here's something interesting I ran across recently while researching info about Case knives. Maybe someone else here will find it useful, or even identify any errors it may have.

 

[Blues]

The Case Tested XX era is now considered to run through the end of WWII up until approx. 1946 according to info from Bernard Levine and others in the know.

 

[knifeaholic]

The thing about any and all of the older Case tang stamps (pre-XX) is that NO ONE really knows (via actual documentation) the exact years that the stamps were used. And no, being written down in a knife book is NOT documentation. I mean documentation from some original source. There really is none, at least none that I have ever seen or that anyone has ever referenced.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

I've been referring to this:

http://www.wrcase.com/case_college/tang_logo_stamp/

I have no doubt there's probably still some ambiguity with the known facts from time to time, but I figure if Case is willing to publish this on their own site (this is what I consider to be an 'original source'), it's about as trustworthy as anything else out there.

 

[aarya]

What about this tang stamp?

It's from a stockman i own. (It's 154cm, which may carry different stamps than the regular steels?)
Anyone care to fill me in?

Edited to add: I just thought i'd ask in this thread, as it's recent, and i don't know where my knife comes in.
(And, now that i thought to check my other Case, a congress in their tru-sharp, it too doesn't conform to the shown stamps. It has two X's underneath the CaseXX, but no more.)

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

What about this tang stamp?

It's from a stockman i own. (It's 154cm, which may carry different stamps than the regular steels?)
Anyone care to fill me in?

Edited to add: I just thought i'd ask in this thread, as it's recent, and i don't know where my knife comes in.
(And, now that i thought to check my other Case, a congress in their tru-sharp, it too doesn't conform to the shown stamps. It has two X's underneath the CaseXX, but no more.)

The 154CM stockman is 2007 issue. If the other knife's mark is similar (long tail C, and the 'lightning' S) it is likely 2008. Starting in 2000, the 'CASE XX' mark, as it looks on your knife, would've been 'surrounded' by 5 Xs and 5 dots (see the chart included in the first post of this thread, for the 2000 -2009 mark). For 2001 - 2005, one dot is removed per year (meaning only 5 Xs are left in 2005). Then, in 2006, they'll start removing one 'X' per year, ending in only one 'X' left in 2009. So, a 2007 knife will have the 3 Xs, and the 2008 will have 2.

 

[aarya]

The 154CM stockman is 2007 issue. If the other knife's mark is similar (long tail C, and the 'lightning' S) it is likely 2008. Starting in 2000, the 'CASE XX' mark, as it looks on your knife, would've been 'surrounded' by 5 Xs and 5 dots (see the chart included in the first post of this thread, for the 2000 -2009 mark). For 2001 - 2005, one dot is removed per year (meaning only 5 Xs are left in 2005). Then, in 2006, they'll start removing one 'X' per year, ending in only one 'X' left in 2009. So, a 2007 knife will have the 3 Xs, and the 2008 will have 2.

Ah! Thank you for explaining it! I couldn't make heads or tails about it, but now it makes more sense. :thumbup:

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

Ah! Thank you for explaining it! I couldn't make heads or tails about it, but now it makes more sense. :thumbup:

You're welcome.

And the same rules apply for previous decades in which the dots were used (basically, from 1970 to present, with some exception during a few years in the '90s, when Case used an actual year stamp on the blade; that's shown in the OP's chart too).

 

[Alterax]

Hi!

I can't find a Case tang stamp... Can anyone help me with this?

http://prntscr.com/x5tpj

Thanks!

 

[ptradeco]

The Case Tested XX era is now considered to run through the end of WWII up until approx. 1946 according to info from Bernard Levine and others in the know.

Dating Case knives, another one of those topics that can lead to premature hair loss Some of those others in the know also have moved the start of the XX era back to 1918-19.