Finding treasure amongst the undesirables

I love to see these early Buck knives. Thanks for posting those pictures. You cannot openly ask about value unless you purchase a Gold Membership or higher. However, you should be able to find some experts to help you with that. You can try BCCI Buck Collectors Club, for example.
 
David Martin said:
Examining the additional photos, I will say it is a single strike as the letters are so evenly spaced and all straight. I have held several knives of
this era and they are very interesting. Thanks for posting it. DM
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The letters are definitely evenly spaced and straight, but they are all at different heights.
Just something I noticed in the pictures and thought I'd bring up in case it means anything.
 
Is there a idea of the number of knifes made in the different groups? I ask every time I'm at a yard sale or flea market and so far I've never discovered a early Buck..fixed or folder. Could the total number of known early (pre 1963) be under a thousand? When a new one pops up it's exciting because they are really rare !
 
Very cool old Buck knife your cousin has! Im thinking like others said, its a four strike because the letters are not quite the same height. Group one, my personal favorite due to all the handle variations you see. Buck was making these knives with remnant pieces of lucite he bought from San Diego plastics. They were using whatever looked good i guess. When they started selling through mail order, they had to standardize the handles and thats when we start seeing handles of solid red, green, blue or black, with a thin white stripe in the middle. The sheath does not look original to me but a closer examination might show otherwise. Cant tell for sure but it looks to be a 105 "All purpose knife" or a 104 Camper. Thanks for sharing!!
 
I thought the stamp looked to have been 4 separately stamped letters.
Good to know I was seeing things correctly.
 
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