Pricing help please

[doorkicker]

I can't seem to find any luck with the search option, can anyone help me to price a Benchmade Emerson CQC-7 plain edge in excellent condition?
here's a pic to help

thanks!

 

[Hateman]

About 120.00 to 150.00, give or take as yours is fully PE which commands a bit higher (sometimes and that is from watching the prices of the BM-Emerson on fleaby for a while. I've 4 of them).

Hope this helps.

P.S.
Is this the 975 or 970 model?

 

[StretchNM]

I don;t believe that's a CQC7... as far as I know BM never made one. That's a BM970, of Emerson design. I know it's a 970 because they only made two of that type that I know of (970&975). It's shorter than mine (975-S)... I can tell by the picture.

I'd say $100 to $130....IF it's pristine (it certainly looks like it is, judging by what can be seen in the pic). I don;t mean to refute the 120-150 appraisal, it just seems pretty high.

The only thing close right now is the Emerson CQC-7 or Super 7.

 

[doorkicker]

weird. it doesnt designate anything like a 900 series knife that i can see. it's definitely a cqc7, here's a crappy shot of the other side of the blade

 

[StretchNM]

weird. it doesnt designate anything like a 900 series knife that i can see. it's definitely a cqc7, here's a crappy shot of the other side of the blade..........QUOTE]

Hmmm,
Doorkicker, does it have "CQC7" on it somewhere? I would stand corrected if, somewhere on the knife, it says CQC7. If it doesn;t, then it's a 970. Those Benchmades from pre-1997 (Emerson) didn;thave a "model number" on the blade like they do now. I mean, some of the other models might have, but not the 970 series.... at least, not the 975.

Brand new, in 1996 (sometime between Feb and June), mine cost $120 (I'm pretty sure anyway).

Wow. I just scrolled up and looked at your second photo a little closer. It's blurry, but it looks like maybe it says "CQC7" at the end of the line under Emerson. Hmmmmm. Close Quarter Combat 7. I'm still pretty positive that it's Benchmade's model 970 even though Emerson, who designed it, (and who stills makes a CQC7 so he must have taken the model name with him), may have submitted the design to BM as a "CQC7" and then they gave it their own model number.

Check with BM. My money is on: "BM970". Very interesting. Please keep me posted if you wouldn;t mind.

 

[doorkicker]

thanks for the help guys. i know the pic sucks, it's really blurry, but it says emerson specwar knives cqc-7. others that i have seen also have ats-34 on the side with the benchmade logo, but this doesn't have that either. maybe it's just an earlier 970?