Collector Edition BM, SH-1?, more?

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Anybody know something about "Collector Edition" releases?
Edit: Not talking about collectible or collector grade/quality.

Here's what I've dug up...
Andy Prisco said:
...that's not the collector edition BM. It's satin, it's nice, but it's not the collector edition, which was almost mirror finished, etched, and numbered. (Unless all that stuff is on the other side of knife than the one shown in the picture.)

Andy

[This message has been edited by Andy Prisco (edited 02-26-2001).]
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Collector Edition BM pics from https://web.archive.org/web/20161017113202/http://badmojo.net/battle-mistress.html
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SH-1 with same looking etch/number size
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On Bad Mojo... looks like laser etch... no pic of other side to see if it's numbered like the one above.
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yes, a little. Collector grade SHBM's came in two fashions. Numbered with smooth bolts and when bolts were finished, they used the regular tubes. The other was non numbered with slotted bolts. They way you can tell the collector grade BM's is that they have no dimples above the ricasso flat area. They are all satin. Cliffs SHBM was a collector grade knife. But other colector grade models were different. The BME LE's were sand colored.
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The old knives were either engraved or chemically etched. I don't remember printing in the 90's like the steel heart above. But maybe they experimented with it.
 
Mine is barely visible.
 

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Sand colored BME LE, was mine, sold off long ago
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Here is LE#37, which use to be chucks, then mine and now someone else owns it.
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Here is LE#500 which use to belong to skunk
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This one was going to be a fully numbered LE with smooth bolts, but the owner arrived in the USA and wanted to fly back with it. Didn't want to wait. So no number, no printing and no smooth bolts. So a slotted bolt non numbered LE from one of the old timers
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Are the “Collector Edition” a precursor to LE?
Or, did LE designation precede “Collector Edition?”

Cobalt’s BM and the SH1 are the only laser etched ones I think I’ve seen.

Was the BM-e an LE or “Collector Edition?”
Asking because Andy Prisco mentioned the laser etch… and is apparently pre-ergo… but maybe not.

Wondering when the term “Collector Edition” series/name was coined. If Andy’s post in Feb 2001… seems like it’d be around that time.

An ATS-34 SH1 from 2001 seems kind of late for ATS-34… but, maybe not?
 
The only time I ever remember collector grade ever being mention was with the original SHBM. After that they were all limited editions or special editions or custom shop. But just because I never hear the term collector from busse, doesn't mean it wasn't applied somewhere else. I just never heard it before or after. But after 1000 plus bottles of scotch, I can't say for sure
 
Jerry Busse Jerry Busse can you please educate us on the “Collector Edition” knives?

If there was only a Collector Edition BM, can you comment on the apparently late SH1 (above) with laser etch? Most of the SH1 I’ve seen are stamped before HT or not stamped.
 
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