Help on Identifying an Old Case Knife

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Mickey Holmes

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I recently found this Case knife when going through some things of my deceased grandfather.

I was wonder what model Case this is and maybe the general time it was produced.

The only markings on any of the blades is on the main blade that says "Case Tested XX".

The peanut is shown for size comparison.

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It looks like a cattle, or cattlemen's, knife - although I have no idea about the pattern number or year produced. Others here most definitely will have more info, and I'm looking forward to learning more myself.

Super awesome knife, thanks for posting!
 
Your question is fine. Questions on value are limited to Gold members and above.
 
Peregrin said:
Your question is fine. Questions on value are limited to Gold members and above.
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Thanks for clarifying that up!


Railsplitter said:
Pattern number 6345 perhaps? 1920-1940
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That's older than I thought, thanks!


onespdfrk said:
Check out post #10 in this thread: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/425068-Case-XX-USA-6344HE

Charlie C. (Waynorth) may need to chime in here with some more details!
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Thank you for finding that for me! It looks almost exactly the same except cleaner.
 
Judging by your pictures, I'd say that is what is known as Case's old "green" bone of the "Tested era".
 
You may already know this but on the Case web site you can go to the Case College page and they show all the tang stamps and it might gets you a lot closer to dating it as there were several different logos used with case xxx tested.
 
Nice knife!


"green bone" is a collector term for Case's brown bone on old knives. It sometimes has a greenish hue.

"Green bone" is a term used by Case collcectors, and it refers only to Case knives, specifically to older Case knives with brown bone handles -- because they are not red, like newer (eg 1960s) Case bone handles. "Green bone" was originally a joke (it's not red, so it must be green), but a lot of folks don't realize this, so they squint up their eyes and try and imagine a green tint in the brown (OK, I confess, I tried to do this, too, when I was a newbie -- and I also went on a snipe hunt with flashlights and gunny sacks).

A few years ago Case multiplied the joke by creating a line of knives with bone handles that really are dyed bright green....
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r redden said:
You may already know this but on the Case web site you can go to the Case College page and they show all the tang stamps and it might gets you a lot closer to dating it as there were several different logos used with case xxx tested.
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I didn't know that, thanks for telling me about it!
 
PWork said:
It always struck me as a greenish brown. Some is just darker. You'll find similar variation in Case's old "red" bone.
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Looking at the knife in sunlight I can see that parts of the handle do seem greenish brown.


supratentorial said:
Nice knife!


"green bone" is a collector term for Case's brown bone on old knives. It sometimes has a greenish hue.


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Thanks for the information!
 
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