confused about a Case Baby Butterbean

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911rescue

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Hi folks,

I have a Case Baby Butterbean built in 2001.

The tang stamp reads V62132SS so it should be jigged bone, but which???:confused:

BTW: To me it looks more like BoneStag or even genuine stag.

Maybe the factory put wrong scale material on this knife?

If so, any idea how much I could get for this knife?

Thanks in advance:thumbup:

Here we go...pics:

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Even though to me from the picture it looks like bone jigged and torched. (i.e. bonestag), a case knife pattern with the first numeric = 5 indicates a Stag (anter) so I would say the knife has a stag handle since a 6 indicates bone.

Personally I do not like the marketing term bonestag. To me, stag is antler. bone is bone and bone treated to resemble stag antler is still bone in my book.

Hard to say how much it is worth since it is recent and not that rare.
 
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The 6.5 was new to me thanks! I think your knife is stag.
 
Bastid said:
The 6.5 was new to me thanks! I think your knife is stag.
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That´s EXACTLY what´s confusing me:

If it is STAG then the first digit should be a "5" and not a "6" as stamped on the tang.

BTW: My "reference" is a 2007 Case Product Guide, maybe they´ve changed something since 2001 when the knife was produced???
 
I think it is the jigged bone...the grain doesn't look right for stag. Look at the edges top and bottom under magnification. Bone will have pores that were used as blood vessel to feed the bone, antler material doesn't have the pores.
 
911rescue said:
That´s EXACTLY what´s confusing me:

If it is STAG then the first digit should be a "5" and not a "6" as stamped on the tang.

BTW: My "reference" is a 2007 Case Product Guide, maybe they´ve changed something since 2001 when the knife was produced???
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I am sorry, and agree with you now. I thought that tang stamp showed a 5.
 
The V means Vintage Bone.

This material was used by Case for a few years in the early 2000's PRIOR to the introduction of the 6.5 "Bone Stag".

The Vinatge Bone was sort of a "forerunner" to the 6.5 stag bone. Vintage Bone was similar with a "stag" look but was whiteblack without the golden "torched" color.

Vintage Bone was discontinued with the introduction of the 6.5 bone stag.
 
knifeaholic said:
The V means Vintage Bone.

This material was used by Case for a few years in the early 2000's PRIOR to the introduction of the 6.5 "Bone Stag".

The Vinatge Bone was sort of a "forerunner" to the 6.5 stag bone. Vintage Bone was similar with a "stag" look but was whiteblack without the golden "torched" color.

Vintage Bone was discontinued with the introduction of the 6.5 bone stag.
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Sounds very good and reasonable to me, so please do you have any idea how much this little boy is worth???
 
Whether it's bone or stag,but Knifeaholic seems to have cleared up the mystery, it's got a really nice look to it. Were there other models with these scales?
 
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