Vacation finds

Vanguard41xx

Vanguard41xx

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I am sure many of you saw my Case jack thread, but I figured it would be nice to show all of my finds in one place. :D

The first one I found was on the way there. A Case Serpentine jack. I assume it is the 6232 pattern (someone correct me if I am wrong). Love the color of the scales. I paid $5.00 for this one.
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My next find was this Humason & Beckely jack (H&B) It was mixed together in a display case of Case and Imperial knives. I thought it was an electrician's knife but after a closer look I knew it was something much better. I paid around $7.00 for this one.
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My last find was at a little antique store. Had many antique hand tools and gardening implements. This one was in a display along with old files. I paid $15.00 for it. I really like the size and was pleased that it was unused (had a factory edge before I came home) other than some spotting. It has very nice matching bone scales.
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The Case XX can't be a 32 pattern... maybe it's a 087 pattern.

I like the ebony wood H&B a lot. I don't have my books handy...do you know the date range?
 
Those are some excellent finds! I had never heard of the H & B brand until the other day and now here is another one! Your 6232 is similar to one I found at an estate sale,when I first joined BF and started looking, although yours is much nicer. The only numbers I can make out, on back of main blade, are two possible zeros and a 7

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Edit: You guys figured it out while I was busy
 
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Nice finds, Sir! Those two old Case´s look very, very nice :)

I hope you still have some nice vacation days.

Kind regards
Andi
 
Gevonovich said:
Those are some excellent finds! I had never heard of the H & B brand until the other day and now here is another one! Your 6232 is similar to one I found at an estate sale,when I first joined BF and started looking, although yours is much nicer. The only numbers I can make out, on back of main blade, are two possible zeros and a 7

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Edit: You guys figured it out while I was busy
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Nice knife! Does it have slick black scales?
 
There is a certain satisfaction when finding a old gem, really nice find. They all look like you don't have to do any maintenance, they look very clean and maintained.
-Pete
 
Lol, no wonder those old gems are so hard to find... all you guys are too good at finding them. :)

Man, just one time I'd like to come across an old beauty like that jack and pick it up for pocket change! Closest I come is some professionally cleaned knife with 20% of the blade gone touted as 'mint', lol.

Great find, congrats!

Will
 
That first Case knife is basically my dream knife! A scaled-up Peanut, rounded bolsters, great bone, and carbon steel. You lucky dog!
 
Sonnemann said:
That first Case knife is basically my dream knife! A scaled-up Peanut, rounded bolsters, great bone, and carbon steel. You lucky dog!
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You and me both. I think I could be happy with a good carbon steel/bone scale 62087 as my only knife.
 
Thank you for the compliments gents. There were many other fine deals but I have to leave some for you guys. ;)
 
I really like that H&B.

Per Blade's Guide to Knives and their Values: "Humason & Beckley of New Britain was founded in 1853. It did a moderate business until 1912 when it was sold to Landers Frary & Clark. L.F. & C. (founded 1865) was the largest cutlery firm in the world at the turn of the 20th century, but it did not make pocketknives. L.F. & C. turned H. & B. into its pocket cutlery division about 1914, and continued making pocketknives into the 1930s."
 
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