What is the rarest 300 series?

This sounds like a good one for 300.... but I'll throw out a few possibilities just to get the ball rolling.

301 with a serrated secondary blade, about 1990 ish... never seen one in person
317 with a serrated blade.
Any yellow Camillus with a 'BUCK' shield. Might be a few by Buck also.

If you want to include Yellowhorse.
A 314 Trapper inlayed on BOTH sides.
 
Serrated 301s were a production model and several people have them in collections. Buck stockmen's with odd blades haven't been very popular.
The 317 with pins is a Cami start-up version that dropped the pins quickly after production got started. Lets call it a almost prototype. Have a look at the one below, which was a production model, only very small production. Will think on this subject some more. Some SMKWs special offers of modified production models were pretty rare also. i.e. 317 with Paul Bunyon and the Babe. Some 315s are hard to find, some special orders with Ivory scales and scrimshaw are expensive. How many have seen a barehead 315 yachtsman with BUCK 'hot' stamped in the scale. Made about the end of production. Several models were made in white or yellow but are usually considered prototypes or salesman samples. HKingdom has the largest group of those I know about. The rarest of the rare, ? does anyone have a RED 309 sawcut scales, or a cami made 309 with scale rivets, one spring, tang reads BUCK, 309, U.S.A. WITH EZ opening notch on the reverse scale. I guess I should just make a list and we could see if anyone has them. I don't have them all. On my wanted list some may not actually exist...but someone has told me they do...but doesn't have photo...300
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Did everyone get the one below while it was in catalog
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Did everyone get the single blade 302, or all of them ?
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300Bucks, tell us more about the knife in the first photo.

Here are some numbers from Joe Houser for Yellow Saw-cut Delrin and Serrated knives with production of 1000 or less.

Yellow Saw-cut Delrin

307 1000

313 1000

331 900

332 900

Serrated

317 700

Bert
 
Bert,
Polished one blade, ebony and pearl scales, to be honest I can't remember if this was Buck, SMKWs or BCCI offer. 300
 
I thought someone said that the 303 solitaire was available at the factory only for a particular event. Could have been BCCI get together, I don't recall what I was told.

I really do hate seeing it though... since I have just about all of the other 303s...:eek:
 
300Bucks said:
Serrated 301s were a production model and several people have them in collections. Buck stockmen's with odd blades haven't been very popular.
The 317 with pins is a Cami start-up version that dropped the pins quickly after production got started. Lets call it a almost prototype. Have a look at the one below, which was a production model, only very small production. Will think on this subject some more. Some SMKWs special offers of modified production models were pretty rare also. i.e. 317 with Paul Bunyon and the Babe. Some 315s are hard to find, some special orders with Ivory scales and scrimshaw are expensive. How many have seen a barehead 315 yachtsman with BUCK 'hot' stamped in the scale. Made about the end of production. Several models were made in white or yellow but are usually considered prototypes or salesman samples. HKingdom has the largest group of those I know about. The rarest of the rare, ? does anyone have a RED 309 sawcut scales, or a cami made 309 with scale rivets, one spring, tang reads BUCK, 309, U.S.A. WITH EZ opening notch on the reverse scale. I guess I should just make a list and we could see if anyone has them. I don't have them all. On my wanted list some may not actually exist...but someone has told me they do...but doesn't have photo...300
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Did everyone get the one below while it was in catalog
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Did everyone get the single blade 302, or all of them ?
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I've got two 302's and wish I had a yellow one. Someone, here, offered me one, but the shipping would have been as much as the knife so I thanked him and passed on the knife.
 
Ok, After one hours thought. The rarest 300 on earth. I have never seen one or stolen a photo of one. But have been told they existed. The 305 Clipper was usually not a 'knife persons' knife. Usually bought as gifts for women or used as a fancy Sunday knife by men to clip loose threads from womens dress collars. They came with a ring to put on keyrings. Otherwise only crazy collectors bought them. Most Buck men likely bought little SAK with scissors to go on their keyrings because they had pointed nail file blade to clean your nails before walking into genteel company. The back knife is the Buck smooth scale version first production scissors, notice the differences in the scissor 'handles". I have a reverse of this photo I will search for.

The rarest bird in the forest - A black sawcut scale, 305 clipper, made in the last few breaths of its named production life, with Wenger made scissors. Will have Wenger stamped on the scissors and are different than earlier clipper scissors. Here is its almost as rare brother Red. He is 27 years old. But, black must have been last down the production line. Remember it has to have WENGER stamped on the scissors and be sawcut, not smooth scaled. 300
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Larry Oden and I once agreed to say they were salesman samples. But, too many were creeping out of the woodwork. I now say they were production prototypes or first runs. There are too many other Cami contract 300s with little scale pins to just be samples. I think they were starting production of the Buck order just as Camillus was changing designs and not using scale pins. You might could find a Camillus collector who has older Cami models like those and see if his knives dropped the pins at the same time. 300

Check out the one on the right. I have a better photo when I find it.
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This barehead 315 with hidden rivet, no pins and no escutcheon isn't rare, but you don't see them very often.

Bert
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Ok MP, Find a Cami contract 303 , will say BUCK, Made in U.S.A. on front tang, Model # 303 on reverse WITH scale rivets.
I don't have one. Is that the one in the photo. Should have been made only in 1971.

This is another example of a crazy collectors only search. Likely made only a few days before a production change order was put into production on the line, dropping the scale rivets.

You need to find three Workman models, one that says Workman on blade, w/ BUCK shield, one with knife, bolt and hammer and one with accident of black scales.
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How about ...
Black smooth Delrin...
Solitaire 302's with 301 blades....
306 Clippers....
 
My Camillus 303 with handle pins does not have the 303 on the back side. :( If it does in fact exist, I will have one some day!

Here are 3 Workman 303s. Grey, Black and Black with a different etch. I think I have at least one other, but will have to confirm this evening.
Black Workman KBH

Grey Workman "BUCK"

Here's a black handle with a different etch
 
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