New (to me) Old Creamy GEC

black mamba

black mamba

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This is one I've been searching out for quite a while now. Just got this baby in, and is it BEAUTIFUL! One of fewer than 150 ever made in this handle material, Ivory Casein (including 134 #73s and only 10 #23s).

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This material has a grain structure very like old elephant ivory. It is a milk-based product (of all things!) and is supposed to be quite durable.

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The larger #23s were made in the first year of production, 2006, while these end-capped Scouts were made in 2007.

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This is how I've looked for the past two days (it came in Saturday afternoon).
:D :p :D :p :D
 
Nice one Mamba! Now you have to find the 2006 first annual rendezvoux knife. That one was a single bolstered (no cap) trapper in ivory cassein and I believe there were only ten or so made.

Eric
 
Eric, when I just started collecting GECs a couple years back I bid on one of the Open House Special Pioneers in casein (yes, only 10 made according to the website and D.L. Anthony's nice book) on "that auction site," but got outbid, stopping at $95.

Still kicking myself . . . if I only knew then what I know now. At that time I had no idea there were only 10 in the world, and probably the seller didn't either!

And yes, Luciano, 440 C.
 
I have one of those, and love it. How hard is it to open? Mine is an absolute NAILBUSTER! OUCH!
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Interesting and rich scale material. Milk based you say? Must be like an early plastic, it certainly shows grain like ivory. Very attractive.

Frankly, I'd like to see a fair few more of their patterns in stainless, 73 liner lock notably. But, it's not what the buying public wants I suppose.
 
willgoy said:
Frankly, I'd like to see a fair few more of their patterns in stainless, 73 liner lock notably. But, it's not what the buying public wants I suppose.
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You can understand why they might not want to make a bunch of patterns that would sit on their dealers shelves for long periods of time.
 
VERY nice. I wish I knew that the casein looked that nice - I would've picked one up. Didn't they have a ribber version as well?
 
Knife Crazied said:
That is beautiful! That's the one thing I really dislike about GEC is there nail breaking ablities.
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This was true several years ago, but they have changed them since -- remember, this knife was made over 3 years ago.

wintermute said:
VERY nice. I wish I knew that the casein looked that nice - I would've picked one up. Didn't they have a ribber version as well?
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There's still at least one new one available. I thought it was only made smooth, but I could be wrong.
 
The casein is the only slabs I have seen GEC use that shrunk after being installed. They have used some horn that didn't cure enough back in the beginning; but even it didn't seem to move as much as the casein.

It is a very nice looking handle.

Mike Latham
CollectorKnives.Net
 
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