Need help with these two Case 62055s

Eric H

Eric H

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I tried posting this on a different forum with little luck, so I will try here.

I recently picked up these two 62055s, and I like them both - and love the pattern - there are a couple of minor differences that have me scratching my head. (I do have the black one up for sale/trade, but may reconsider based on what input I get here.)

First, the black bone handled one (1977) has a smaller nail nick than the red boned 1974. (I guess the pics are a little dark--the red boned 1974 is on the bottom in the first pic and top in the second.)

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Second, the pen blades are different sizes--the 74 is noticeably smaller than the 77. Neither appear to have been sharpened much if at all, and the little nick in the kicks are (proportionally) the same size, which tells me the smaller one couldn't have been sharpened so much as to reduce the size from the larger to the current smaller size. (I happen to prefer the smaller one.)

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Otherwise, they seem identical--same size, shape, snap, quality, etc. I have no reason to believe that either one is fake, but I'm no expert.

What do you think?
 
I don't think this will be much help but I have two 055 patterns from the 1940-1964 era. My pictures are terrible and I only have pics of one side of each knife but mine both seem to resemble your 1974. There does seem to be a slight difference in the nail nick on my examples but not as apparent as yours.

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Ok Eric, here's what I can offer...not that it's much, only my observation over the years. No fake in my opinion. CASE switched pen blades from early 70's to late 70's, even the knife frame itself got thicker. A lot thicker in the 80's even. I notice a difference in my early 70's 6232/6292's to late 70's in the thin to thick frame thing. Then I have no idea what happened when they switched their gorgeous red bone to that not so good looking (to me) brown bone right about 77/78?

Ok, that's all I got;):D
 
Thanks for all the info!

Makesharp--on my 74, the end of the nick extends to just beyond the 'point' on the spine of the blade. Hard to tell from the pic--is yours the same?

Paul, that makes sense (there's a very sizable difference in the two pen blades--a design change at that time period perfectly explains it.) While I wish the bone on my 74 was redder (like Makesharp's!), it is a nice color. I'll have to post some better picks. The black bone on the other one is the only reason I have it up on the emporium. Just don't care for black bone. The pattern itself is fantastic--one of the pocket and hand friendliest I've ever owned--even slightly better than my new favorite, the GEC 68.
 
After reading this thread, I realized I don't have a single knife in this pattern. This is unacceptable. :)
 
I had two nearly identical 1970 small coke bottle red bone Case knives. The nail nicks were different and similar to the two you show, and this from the same year! Not all that unusual, in my opinion. Both of those knives appear authentic.
 
Eric H said:
Makesharp--on my 74, the end of the nick extends to just beyond the 'point' on the spine of the blade. Hard to tell from the pic--is yours the same?
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The nail nick on mine ends at the point of the spine Eric. It looks to me that the cutter was plunged a little too deep when the nail nick was machined in the factory. With today's quality control, it probably would have been scrapped but I wouldn't worry about it.
 
I just bought another one of these...I think I'm addicted to this pattern!
 
These Case knives were high volume production knives built of a high quality - knife to knife differences are common. OH
 
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