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gonebad395

gonebad395

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This was my ggrandfather's know nothing about these kids of knives anyone have a idea
 
Can you show us pics of the blade tang stamps, both sides?

If I had to guess I'd say its a 6235 1/2 Jack or maybe a 6231.
 
gonebad395 said:
Also have this barlow bad pic sorry but stamp says Imperial provision rla
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That reads "Providence, RI" as in the city in Rhode Island, which was the home of the Imperial Knife Company.

gonebad395 said:
The case stamp says case xx 5 1/2 in open 3 1/4 closed
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Ok, so definitely the 6235 1/2 Jack.

Here's a link to Case's tang stamps. The pictures there should help you figure out the date range it was made. http://www.wrcase.com/case_college/tang_stamps/
 
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Hey ty man the print is so small the scales are broken on the Barlow would it be worth fixing?
 
Your Case appears to be a a 6235 1/2 ( I'm assuming there's a pen blade behind the main ) jack knife made between1940 and 1964.
 
gonebad395 said:
What's a pen blade again I'm really new to these kind of knives
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Smaller secondary blade.

Here's my Case 6235 1/2 for comparison. The smaller blade that is to the front in the pic is a pen blade.




This is the other side of it.

 
Ty man that it does have the blades are in bad shape I'm sure my grandfather forgot about this knife any recommendations to return it to its hayday or is it not worth it ?
 
Ty man that it does have the blades are in bad shape I'm sure my grandfather forgot about this knife any recommendations to return it to its hayday or is it not worth it ? Also my knife only says case xx nothing like the stamp on yours
 
Mine was a much more recent knife (1982). If yours just says "Case XX" then it is from the 1940-1964 era.

I can't advise you on what you should do with yours. Whether it is worth it or not is completely up to you.
 
I hear ya I would never get rid of it just wondering if it's a knife worth restoring
 
The Case knife has beautiful red bone scales that none of the modern era knives have, It seems that the main blade might have broken at one time and someone, maybe your grand father, had reshape it. The knife could benefit from WD-40 oil to remove some active rust on the blades and then few drops of mineral oil.

Mike
 
If you know how to sharpen, you could put good edges on both of those blades and still use that knife. If it was your grandpa's, I would certainly keep it just as a family heirloom. I have a pure junk knife that that I keep because it was my father's. It probably meant nothing to him, but it means something to me. Funny how objects are just objects, but it's the ties to the people we care about that makes them special.
 
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