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waynorth waynorth , don’t you find it confusing to have two Case threads? I really wish the moderators would merge them. I have been told the two threads have purposes, but I cannot discern a difference. There certainly is no difference in the way people use them.
 
waynorth said:
I like posting antiques in Robin's old thread just for balance!! Nice pocketable EE Jacks !!
Rough Black, and Smooth Black!!View attachment 2761366View attachment 2761367Case 62055s, 1940 - 1964!! Unused from an old store display, if I remember right!!
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beautiful pair.
Were the 2 swedges offered at the same time ?
I very often don't like cut swedges but they did it right on this one, that drawn swedge was done extremely well too though and I'd have a hard time deciding which I prefer.
 
I can't post a pic as I didn't take one before returning from my trip and it's in my checked luggage. But, picked up a 2022 mini trapper in a beautifully dyed smooth bone with some character at a flea market for $25! Stainless steel. Factory edge. Nice fit and finish. Can't go wrong at that price!
 
Hickory n steel said:
beautiful pair.
Were the 2 swedges offered at the same time ?
I very often don't like cut swedges but they did it right on this one, that drawn swedge was done extremely well too though and I'd have a hard time deciding which I prefer.
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I think it was at the whim of the Cutler at the time, or maybe different years!! Smaller details like that sometimes escape me!!
 
Leslie Tomville said:
waynorth waynorth , don’t you find it confusing to have two Case threads? I really wish the moderators would merge them. I have been told the two threads have purposes, but I cannot discern a difference. There certainly is no difference in the way people use them.
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I try to stick with this one, my old tried and true!! I'm easily confused!!! :confused:
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I like this one the best!!
 
Will Power said:
Simple and magnificent, a truly beautiful knife you show there Tim, glad it has such an appreciative home :thumbsup:
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jmh33 said:
That’s a real Beauty right there!! 🥰
John 😁
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lithicus said:
Unless I'm mistaken, that is some BEAUTIFUL late rodgers red bone 😍
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Thank you guys :)
L lithicus you are correct. I later learned this from Steve (knifeaholic) who I purchased the knife from:

knifeaholic wrote: Case normally has always jigged and dyed their own bone in house.

However, the "Rogers" bone was purchased already jigged and dyed, from the Rogers Manufacturing Company of Rockfall, Connecticut.

Rogers supplied a number of other knife companies with jigged/dyed bone slabs as well.

The general idea is that if Case had trouble keeping up with bone handle material production in-house for whatever reasons, they purchased bone as needed from Rogers. That is why the Rogers bone handled Case knives are relatively scarce.

In the Tested to early XX eras, the bone purchased from Rogers had a brown/tan color, often referred to as "honeycomb" bone by collectors.

After WWII, for whatever reason, the coloring of Rogers bone changed to red, ranging from dark "wine" color to lighter red. Of course when a knife has been carried for awhile, the bone color tends to get lighter.

The biggest difference with Rogers bone as compared to Case in-house bone (other than the dye colors) is that the Rogers bone jigging is very distinctive, due to the jigging machine that they used.
 
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