What's "NEW" about this?

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Okay, I swiped this picture from an auction. I would like to know what the word "NEW!" printed on the box refers to. The box contained a 1988 110.

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hum ya knows that is a right good question there....
I am sure some one is fixing to get all us here a good answer !
 
thebrain said:
Maybe referring to condition, IE not used.
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I doubt that, since Buck isn't known for selling used knives and that came printed on the factory box.

I remember a thread regarding that same box sometime ago, but i don't recall ever seeing a definative answer.
 
I looked in the catalog. New for 1988 were the BuckLock 531 & 535, the TruBlue 539, the 529 Buckskins, and the Guildmaster series. The 110 has been around a tad longer with 1988 being it's 25th birthday.
 
That box was used for the 110s (and perhaps 112s also) to signify the "new" radius perimeter models circa 1982 - 1983. I am replying without checking my actual documentation so please allow me a bit of grace here. Anyway, if a 1988 year mark 110 came in that box, it was probably not the original knife that came with the box.
 
Larry Oden said:
That box was used for the 110s (and perhaps 112s also) to signify the "new" radius perimeter models circa 1982 - 1983. I am replying without checking my actual documentation so please allow me a bit of grace here. Anyway, if a 1988 year mark 110 came in that box, it was probably not the original knife that came with the box.
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Wasn't Buck using a different design box by 1988? Actually, the same design, but with a different logo and with the woodgrain look to it, or the reddish brown box?
 
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I finally located one of mine, a 112, new in the box with the same "New!" on the box. It's a 1986 model.
 
Larry Oden said:
That box was used for the 110s (and perhaps 112s also) to signify the "new" radius perimeter models circa 1982 - 1983. I am replying without checking my actual documentation so please allow me a bit of grace here. Anyway, if a 1988 year mark 110 came in that box, it was probably not the original knife that came with the box.
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Well, that got me to thinking. I dug and did find a 110 box like that in my collection. It contained a 4-dot.
 
Been doing a bit of detective work and came up with this. The top picture shows the logo used in the 1986 catalog and the lower one is from the 1987 catalog so it makes sense that they changed the ones on the boxes also. If the knife in the box in question is from '88, I'm pretty sure that Larry is 100% correct (I never doubted it anyway) that the knife is in the wrong box. The box should be reddish brown or with a woodgrain pattern printed on it and have the bottom Logo..

1986 Logo:

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1987 Logo:

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I have in my collection the exact box pictured at the top of this topic. My knife in it was obtained as a "New" knife. The knife in it is a 4 dot 110 with radiused edges making it from 1982. This particular one has the thumb depression area radiused as well. Making it not done by hand. Yet, in my display I have a 110 that is radiused on the sides and Not in the thumb depression. Making it one of those that were done by hand at first. DM
 
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