Please School Me on Schrade 5OT Lockbacks

Not to hijack, but let me ask this. When you say "unused in box", what about unused not in box.

I think any unused Schrade is probably "collectible." With regards to Old Timer values, the rare models and variations sell at significant premiums with or without the original packaging and paperwork. Even the most common models are still highly sought after if they have an older packaging style or older tang stamp. The problem with those most common models, they were mass produced by the thousands and thousands so most serious collectors already have them.

To be specific, if you have a 34OT (the most common and most famous Old Timer model of all) and it's new except missing the box, you'll have no trouble re-selling it, but it probably won't go for a premium price; you could get twice as much if it's packed in an older style box and has the original paperwork.

The smaller models (12OT, 108OT, etc.), for whatever reason, don't sell as high as equally-common larger models.

Despite being less common and built with premium materials, many of the limited edition or special Old Timers sell for less than the standard brown delrin models. Something about that 'sawcut' plastic I guess. :confused:

None of that is 'gospel' and I haven't done any scientific studies or statistical consumer analysis; those are merely my observations from years of auction watching.
 
Thanks a lot for your answer Bob. I am far from a collector. My knife hobby of late has tended toward knife rescue. If I find a great old slipjoint at a yard sale with a flaw I can fix for a few bucks then I love that. When I find one that seems a bit more mint or rare I put it up but that's not my goal.

An early post from me bemoaned the absence of a cheap carbon steel slipjoint...

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/869837-cheap-carbon-steel-slipjoint

Little did I know at the time that they were out there, vintage Schrades! The common ones still being inexpensive although there are some people out there who think they should not be. As time goes by they *will* go up in cost so I'm not a collector, I'm a hoarder. :p

Pinnah, I stopped by that knife store on the way back from work yesterday. He had a sign up saying he was closed for the day, go figure. Check your e-mail.
 
I sure would like to find a green Delrin, brass 5Ot Schrade...Either 1095 or SS. If anyone has one they would consider selling, please P.M. me.

Thanks, Tom
 
I sure would like to find a green Delrin, brass 5Ot Schrade...Either 1095 or SS. If anyone has one they would consider selling, please P.M. me. — Thanks, Tom

They turn up, seemingly in waves, at a well-known auction site. Keep checking.
 
This one is choice.Blue bone. I'm always on the lookout for the rope cut blue bone as well.
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I've got a blue bone stockman as well-but the rope cut blues are astounding-could be something different for BF trad Knife 14?
 
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And a Duck Unlimited edition of the 5OT that got over the factory wall before being badged as DU. Colors are a little weird as I was avoiding the sky reflection in the mirror-finish blade. (Which would not be my chosen blade finish, but that's how it came.)
 
The 5OT that arrived in my mailbox this week is a funny one. I guess it's carbon since it doesn't have the +. And it's in a display box - a driving safety award from a panty hose company. :D

Pics from the auction listing:
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