In a friendly debate and need you help(OPINION), please!

sunnyd

sunnyd

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Hello Fellow's,

My local knife & gun show pals and I are just about to sign up for the latest WPB, FL. Fair Grounds Show and split some display / table fees..

So I pulled out the following,, it's a long since discontinued pattern(Loom Fixer) two blade knife Case XX 1940-64..

Now, I don't give a hoot about the aspect of that particular knife pattern,,, but. However, what I do need to know is:

ARE THESE SCALES, OLD ROGERS BONE? or OLD RED BONE?? And WHY YOU THINK THAT?

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I'll hold my own opinion and defer to folks like Tony B. and Bernard Levine for a definitive answer.
 
Red bone, not Rogers bone. Rogers looks totally different....jigging is different and its a darker red (late Rogers).

I have never seen a 6217 pattern in Rogers bone.
 
I certainly don't know as much about knives as T. Bose or B. Levine but I do
know about Case Red Rogers Bone Scales. Pictured is a Case XX (1940- 1964) Red Rogers Bone Muskrat. Case use of Rogers Bone is rare. I know of others but mine is the only one I have ever seen. If others have a Case knife with Rogers Bone scales please post.
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They're old red bone, not Rogers. Characteristics of Rogers jigging: relatively shallow cuts, fairly random placement of jigs, fairly random variation of jig depth, jigs normally placed fairly close together; if they lean on the buffer a bit hard when finishing, you will have a hard time really seeing the distinct jig cuts in Rogers bone. Also, about the lightest red late Rogers I've ever seen is about a medium red (on a 48 pattern).
 
sunnyd said:
My local knife & gun show pals and I are just about to sign up for the latest WPB, FL. Fair Grounds Show and split some display / table fees..
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Now you're getting me homesick. When I was a kid growing up in the northern end of Palm Beach County, my dad and I used to hit the gun show at the old auditorium in West Palm Beach (AKA the leaky tee-pee) to check out the knife sellers' offerings.
 
That is typical Case red bone from the 1960s. I had a mint one just like it one time. Very pretty color. I have a XX folding hunter with late rogers bone and it is much darker in color with a finer jig.
 
Thanks everyone for all the comments here.

I am very much obliged for all your assistance with this.

Best,
Anthony
 
mnblade said:
Now you're getting me homesick. When I was a kid growing up in the northern end of Palm Beach County, my dad and I used to hit the gun show at the old auditorium in West Palm Beach (AKA the leaky tee-pee) to check out the knife sellers' offerings.
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mnblade I am sorry to hear that I got you home sick brother.

That was a long time ago. That place was bought by the Jehovah's witness's or some such about ten years ago.

You must be as old as I am..:D
 
I'm 39. Last time I was there was, I think, for a Jimmy Buffett concert round about 1987. I later went to the gun shows at the fair grounds too. But I was always just there to look at knives. Didn't develop any real interest in guns till years later.
 
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