My $4.00 Case Tested flea market knife

Looks like red bone (edited to add that I am color blind AF, so who know what color it is!) and you can age the knife by matching the main blade tang stamp to the decade/s that model was made
 
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afishhunter said:
Nice score.
For $4 you pretty much stole it.🤪

Wish there was flea markets round here.🙄
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Yeah, I use to go every Sunday, now just every once in a while. The picking hasn't been that good lately. I focus on knives, hatchets and pellet guns when i do go.
 
How much??? :eek:o_O😍 What a find, and plenty of life left in the oldster yet, will make a very tidy carry indeed. From the photos it looks like brown colour bone, what's the pattern No. on the tangs ? I'd get some wax on those scales for appearance, a great find there:thumbsup:
 
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holo07 said:
Pick this up today at the flea market for $4.00 took it home cleaned it up a little, put an edge on it and into my pocket it went.. blades still have a good snap for it’s age. Couple questions

what’s the handle material ?
How olds the knife? 1930’s ?

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Looks like a 94 Large Cigar, length about 4 1/4”, green bone. Does it have nickel liners? The pen blade has a lot of wear, it was originally the same length as the clip. A Case Tested XX 6294J is pretty rare, an example with full blades is big money.
 
Will Power said:
How much??? :eek:o_O😍 What a find, and plenty of life left in the oldster yet, will make a very tidy carry indeed. From the photos it looks like brown bone, what's the pattern No. on the tangs ? I'd get some wax on those scales for appearance, a great find there:thumbsup:
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Its Case Green bone. There was no brown bone. Over the years it was green or red. Its called green bone because it isn't red.....really.......
 
A Arathol thanks for illuminating me :) CASE did have a greenish looking bone back in those days I think, wonder what that's called, Bradford Bone ?
 
Great find. :thumbsup: I'm envious.

Case didn't stamp pattern numbers on blade tangs until around 1950 or so. So older knives wouldn't have shown them and are harder to pin down to a specific pattern sometimes. Back in that era, Case made a lot of similar-looking patterns with varying pattern numbers, which makes it still harder to pin down.

In the collecting guide* I sometimes refer to, I see one that looks similar (see below) - an equal-end pattern at 3-5/8" closed length, with a swedged clip blade w/long pull, and a pen blade at the opposite end. It's tagged with the pattern# 06245 or (maybe) 06245-1/2. All apparently in green bone and all in the 'prior to 1940' era. Searching online, I see some variations had a spear blade instead of the clip. Not sure which would've been a '1/2' version, as to the pattern number. Also appear to be some with a regular pull (nail nick) on the clip blade.

* - Image below is from 'The Official Price Guide to Collector Knives', by C. Houston Price, Fourteenth Edition (2004)
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Obsessed with Edges said:
Great find. :thumbsup: I'm envious.

Case didn't stamp pattern numbers on blade tangs until around 1950 or so. So older knives wouldn't have shown them and are harder to pin down to a specific pattern sometimes. Back in that era, Case made a lot of similar-looking patterns with varying pattern numbers, which makes it still harder to pin down.

In the collecting guide* I sometimes refer to, I see one that looks similar (see below) - an equal-end pattern at 3-5/8" closed length, with a swedged clip blade w/long pull, and a pen blade at the opposite end. It's tagged with the pattern# 06245 or (maybe) 06245-1/2. All apparently in green bone and all in the 'prior to 1940' era. Searching online, I see some variations had a spear blade instead of the clip. Not sure which would've been a '1/2' version, as to the pattern number.

* - Image below is from 'The Official Price Guide to Collector Knives', by C. Houston Price, Fourteenth Edition (2004)
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The 1/2 is a three blade, most call it a Cattle Knife. Size is the determination between the 45 and 94, 3 /58” vs 4 1/4”. Also made as a scout utility knife at 3 3/4”.
 
JB in SC said:
The 1/2 is a three blade, most call it a Cattle Knife. Size is the determination between the 45 and 94, 3 /58” vs 4 1/4”. Also made as a scout utility knife at 3 3/4”.
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The guide I look at actually shows both 2-blade and 3-blade versions of the '1/2' model, with the picture I included from the 2-blade pattern section of the book. Pattern #s listed in the book vary accordingly, with the 2-blade '06245-1/2' and 3-blade omitting the leading zero as '6345-1/2', by Case's convention for including # of blades as a digit in the pattern#.
 
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