Cool Piece Of Case History

[Vanguard41xx]

Just bought this off of eBay. Never seen or heard of these before, so I looked it up.
They were sent to salesman who wanted to sell something a little different than a regular slipjoint. These line of knives failed, and instead of sitting on a huge loss Case asked Jim Parker to buy them off of them. The only way he would was if they etched on the blade "Case XX German Import". Pretty neat history if you ask me. See for yourself.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/case-inox-p...lPPBSxYh+a8H5sfz8mx59K4=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc


And here it is in the display

 

[67nick]

Wow that is very interesting, I guess ya learn something new everyday. I really enjoy the history involved in older Case knives.

 

[Railsplitter]

Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting indeed!

 

[Jack Black]

Nice find, thanks for the look :thumbup:

 

[Humppa]

That´s a great and pretty unique find. Congratz to this beautiful display

When they were imported to the US - I´m curious to know which german cutlery could have made these knives.

 

[clutchcarter]

Very cool! I love store displays and one this rare is really neat to see.

Mark

 

[screened porch]

That´s a great and pretty unique find. Congratz to this beautiful display

When they were imported to the US - I´m curious to know which german cutlery could have made these knives.

Or if they were a German import at all.
Great find anyway. Are you going to leave them pristine in the box? That wouldn't be easy for me.

 

[Vanguard41xx]

Or if they were a German import at all.
Great find anyway. Are you going to leave them pristine in the box? That wouldn't be easy for me.

I'm probably not going to carry it. It'll be displayed with my other Case knives.

 

[pertinux]

Interesting find!

Do you have a credible source for the knives' alleged provenance?

I hope they're good 'uns in and of themselves, either way.

~ P.

 

[Vanguard41xx]

Interesting find!

Do you have a credible source for the knives' alleged provenance?

I hope they're good 'uns in and of themselves, either way.

~ P.

I looked on AAPK and found a few sources there.
They're definitely real, because I got that picture from the Case archive.

 

[shadow93]

That's pretty cool. I love seeing those things that you don't see every day like this.

 

[sunnyd]

Interesting find!

Do you have a credible source for the knives' alleged provenance?

I hope they're good 'uns in and of themselves, either way.

~ P.

Very good question.. It would be very cool and interesting if the OP would post the display photo and the information on, Bladeforums 'Bernard Levine's Knife Collecting and Identification' forum to get the definitive provenance on this sweet piece.

Best,
Anthony