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Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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Nice 6332. 1970? The 6332 is one of my favorite do-all knives. Halfstops, pen blade (no stupid spey
), and classic red bone.Those are fine looking knives.Case Serpentine Jack
Case CV 65 Stockman in bone.
And I even took a picture
I hope to watch some good college football today. Everyone enjoy the new year
What a good looking knife. There was a snake wood clip point on the bay a couple months ago, it went way to high for me. Take care
Starting the New Year in the company of some fancy doctors that have been surgically altered. I believe that these two Case 85s started their lives much differently than they now appear. The pattern stamp that appears on each blade - 6185 - indicates a doctor's knife with one blade and bone covers. Obviously, one has two blades and neither wears bone. With abalone, they should be stamped 8185 and 8285, respectively. Plus, the date stamp - CASE XX U.S.A. 6 dot - indicates 1974 vintage knives, yet the center band on the handle of the single blade one is engraved CASE 1980 (the double blade knife is engraved with a caduceus, the symbol of healing). Still, they are handsome docs. The abalone changes hue when viewed from different angles, the single blade has what appears to be blue-dyed bone liners under the abalone and where it touches the bolsters/inset band; the double blade has black liners only under the abalone. The butt ends have file work, also (I failed to snap a pic while I was outside and am too lazy to go back out), which would make pulverizing pills with those ends a messy affair.
Here's a slightly different angle.
Here's the pile side.
- Stuart
Beautiful knives Stuart, the Abalone looks really niceStarting the New Year in the company of some fancy doctors that have been surgically altered. I believe that these two Case 85s started their lives much differently than they now appear. The pattern stamp that appears on each blade - 6185 - indicates a doctor's knife with one blade and bone covers. Obviously, one has two blades and neither wears bone. With abalone, they should be stamped 8185 and 8285, respectively. Plus, the date stamp - CASE XX U.S.A. 6 dot - indicates 1974 vintage knives, yet the center band on the handle of the single blade one is engraved CASE 1980 (the double blade knife is engraved with a caduceus, the symbol of healing). Still, they are handsome docs. The abalone changes hue when viewed from different angles, the single blade has what appears to be blue-dyed bone liners under the abalone and where it touches the bolsters/inset band; the double blade has black liners only under the abalone. The butt ends have file work, also (I failed to snap a pic while I was outside and am too lazy to go back out), which would make pulverizing pills with those ends a messy affair.
Here's a slightly different angle.
Here's the pile side.
- Stuart
Starting the New Year in the company of some fancy doctors that have been surgically altered. I believe that these two Case 85s started their lives much differently than they now appear. The pattern stamp that appears on each blade - 6185 - indicates a doctor's knife with one blade and bone covers. Obviously, one has two blades and neither wears bone. With abalone, they should be stamped 8185 and 8285, respectively. Plus, the date stamp - CASE XX U.S.A. 6 dot - indicates 1974 vintage knives, yet the center band on the handle of the single blade one is engraved CASE 1980 (the double blade knife is engraved with a caduceus, the symbol of healing). Still, they are handsome docs. The abalone changes hue when viewed from different angles, the single blade has what appears to be blue-dyed bone liners under the abalone and where it touches the bolsters/inset band; the double blade has black liners only under the abalone. The butt ends have file work, also (I failed to snap a pic while I was outside and am too lazy to go back out), which would make pulverizing pills with those ends a messy affair.
Here's a slightly different angle.
Here's the pile side.
- Stuart
That bone looks like polished tree bark. That's really special.Utica Jack today
Starting the New Year in the company of some fancy doctors that have been surgically altered. I believe that these two Case 85s started their lives much differently than they now appear. The pattern stamp that appears on each blade - 6185 - indicates a doctor's knife with one blade and bone covers. Obviously, one has two blades and neither wears bone. With abalone, they should be stamped 8185 and 8285, respectively. Plus, the date stamp - CASE XX U.S.A. 6 dot - indicates 1974 vintage knives, yet the center band on the handle of the single blade one is engraved CASE 1980 (the double blade knife is engraved with a caduceus, the symbol of healing). Still, they are handsome docs. The abalone changes hue when viewed from different angles, the single blade has what appears to be blue-dyed bone liners under the abalone and where it touches the bolsters/inset band; the double blade has black liners only under the abalone. The butt ends have file work, also (I failed to snap a pic while I was outside and am too lazy to go back out), which would make pulverizing pills with those ends a messy affair.
Here's a slightly different angle.
Here's the pile side.
- Stuart
Thanks! It's a '71. I love the pattern as well, but have only carried my grandfather's with any regularity. I'm hoping to put as much love into this one as he did into his. The blades on his were replaced in the early aughts, but the smoothed bone still brings back many fond memories.Nice 6332. 1970? The 6332 is one of my favorite do-all knives. Halfstops, pen blade (no stupid spey
