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delmas2nd

delmas2nd

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Okay may get in trouble but this is too funny, at least to me. watching this buy it now on our favorite site.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/270899040491?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
it originally started out at $90 now down to $85.
wrote the sellar and asked why he called it a two pin knife. his answer was:
"because the third pin uou see is made of steel instead of brass and is for the lockblade spring"
then wrote back and asked: "so what makes it rare? all the LB 7's were made like this after about 1980?"
his answer was:
"i BOUGHT IT IN 1978 LONG BEFORE YOU WERE BORN, HOW MANY NEW ONES LIKE THIS CAN YOU FIND? "
now i do appreciate the complement or was it? since i was born long before then and i also bought my first LB 7 in 1978 but it was a 4 pin like we all know. where do they get this stuff? make it up as they go along? no research? and look at the serial number! that gives us a good date eh? oh well thought you might enjoy. i did being called that young!
 
I guess any time you get a complement like that, it is good. The stuff people write on the bay could fill a book of jokes.
 
yep same knife but with all the bling that goes with it. you pickup was good one at that price. what is the serial number?
 
So far, this is how the numbering system is shaking out:

First serial numbers were four place digits. I have 0326, so there is a 0001 out there, possibly a 0000, and a 9999.

Serials up to 17693 were produced in 1977.

Serial numbers 17694 - 334585 were produced in 1978 when 316,892 LB7's were made.

Serial numbers 334586 - 785250 were produced in 1979 when 450,665 LB7's were made.

Highest all numeric would be six places, 999999. I have recorded serial number 914569. Thus the first million knives had no alphas. This point was reached some time in 1980. A total of 1,106,906 LB7's had been produced by the end of that year.

When the single alphas were added, the serials still kept to six places max, so only 99,999 knives were made of each alpha. Lowest alpha recorded so far is A25594.

When the rotation went to double alphas, the serials went to seven places. I've recorded BB56630 as the highest double alpha. Some time after this, the serialization ended.

This is what I have so far.
 
more info:
Here is how the serial numbers shake out so far. Ready? Drop your dimes in the can to your right.

1977 - Serials #0001 - #17693
1978 - Serials #17694 - #334585
1979 - Serials #334586 - #785250
1980 - Serials #785251 - #999,999, #A00001 - #A99999, #B00001 - #B18423
1981 - Serials #B18424 - #B99999, #C00001 - #C81575
 
Cal,..that seller states that he definately wont send that knife outside the U.S.....we, in Australia can be thankful for small mercy's.......that thing gets to stay in the U.S.A.....Lol.......
 
Those two pin knives from Alaska look like one of my three pin knives.
Some of my four pin knives (in the box with all the Bling) cost me less then $85...
 
Yeah, that's rich. It's still got the $29.99 price tag from the late 90's or early 2000's showing in one of the pictures. Maybe they think the white gloves will dazzle someone into coming off the $5k?
 
It looks like us poor old Australian Collectors have miss out again - “Larry303” and “Puma55” from Australia.
This seller does not sell out of the USA.
I’m disappointed; as I have never seen a knife like that sold with white gloves and all that!
I notice the name engraved on the shield, I think that knife could have once belonged to one of the owners of Schrade.
Larry those white gloves beat you’re “Bling”.
 
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