This Thing Sold for $150.....Are They Really That RARE?

Wow! Nope, we made over 20k of them. Wishing I had a bunch of them after seeing what that one sold for!
This is one of my favorite special projects we did because it was back before Buck had a historian and someone from marketing "assumed" that the 112 came out the same year that the 110 did. We did the 110 25th anniversary knife first and I am guessing that sales were high enough that some brainiac in marketing thought to add the 112 25th to the line. Problem was that the 112 did not come out until Spring of 1972. Ha!
 
Yes, seems to me I bought one NIB for about $50 just last year and I was thinking that was about the right price.

Now I see this.

I bought mine for the same reason you mention......kind of interesting and funny that the whole thing was a mistake in the first place.

:)

I'm also thinking that the ones with the 1986 blades might be hard to find and some collectors are willing to pay more for them.

That's all I can come up with for a reason.
 
When people pay money like this on auctions......it seems our opinions on values are mostly irrelevant.

:D
 
For the number made it does NOT show up on Ebay NIB very often...I watch 112 listings fairly close and a lot of other LE's like the NKCA 112 cutout [800 made] show up every other week..For that matter you don't see many NS bolster 112's. Joe, didn't Buck make a few finger groove of that model????
 
I have an FG (1988) 25 Annie 112 with brass bolsters, so I know they made one of those.

:)
 
I'll keep my eye out for a 25th in NS with FG's...That would be a odd 112...
 
Well, I think Joe lumped them all together with that 20,000 figure......which must include many years and several variations, and I suppose some variations are pretty much under the radar.

That's what makes it fun, huh?

:)
 
Funny that it would be so "collectable". I bought a 110 with that pad stamp (or etch, whatever it is) just so I could have a new user with 425M steel, NS bolsters and Macassar ebony scales! The commemoratives were kept in better condition than the standard run (which were mostly brass bolster "users" anyway) and easier to find on the reseller's market.
 
I do seem to recall a discussion about Buck making some with finger grooves although I dont have a part number for it. It may have been made under the standard part number in which case, that data base wont help us. If anyone has one in fg, in the box, I would be very interested in the label.
Brass bolsters? Really? Now that one sounds pretty cool!
 
Cool? Well, pretty cool, I guess. I know I like it. :)

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If you like oddities and mistakes.....this series has to be the biggest in history.

So.....it's nice to have a few. I just didn't know they were getting so expensive.
 
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