Unidentified CASE knife

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Hello everybody, ive had this knife kicking around for years now and just started looking at. The blade is chromed. There are up close photos of the blade stamp and the logo on the snap for the sheath. Any info on the model would be greatly appreciated

Blade stamp- CASE
snap stamp- CASE (long tailed "c" with curve down at the end) with TESTED XX underneath

https://imgur.com/a/gk98zWg

Edited with less speculative questions and extraneous information after having some great answers
 
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Thanks! First time posting pics on here. Were they not showing in a slide show type thing for you guys?
 
The 'CASE' stamping on the blade looks like 1940-'64 era. The stamping on the sheath's snap looks like 1932-'40 era.

The clipped blade with the wide, long fuller looks very similar to patterns I'm seeing ID'd as '364' or maybe '364SAB' online. The 'SAB' designation usually means a saber grind, which I don't see on your blade (or, maybe it's there, but more subtle). And in fairness, the online examples ID'd as '364SAB' seem not to have the saber grind either, that I can see. And of all those '364' variants, all of the ones I'm seeing online have a different pommel, angled and down-swept at the butt of the handle.

Case DID chrome-plate many of their fixed blade knives in those early eras. So, no surprise there - yours does look chromed.
 
I didnt know that about the chrome plating, it just seemed odd to me. Those were the dates i found but wasnt sure if they were right. Im glad you could find a model with that blade shape. Im seeing alot of their models with that angled pommel, maybe with some more looking i can find one they used the mushroom shaped pommel with that blade. Thank you!
 
screened porch said:
Maybe by "saber" they meant having a groove like a saber.
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I think the saber grind is there, in the way we're conventionally familiar with it. I see it more in the last 3 photos in Old Biker's posting (post# 2). The secondary grind appears to begin just below lower edge of the fuller groove. Maybe due to the extra-wide fuller, it seems lower on the blade than seen on other so-called 'saber' grinds, at least as I've recognized them. I'm thinking that's why I didn't see it earlier, or didn't recognize it.
 
Okay, i see what youre saying about the grind and it actually being a saber. After the fuller it is ground down to an edge and after putting a flashlight to it, i think can just barely see a more obtuse sharpening bevel
 
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