Buck 110 DB

Hoyt Buck produced the first Buck Knife in 1902. Hoyt and his son Al moved to San Diego and set up shop as H.H. Buck & Son in 1947. Al Buck revolutionized the knife industry in 1964 with the infamous Model 110 Folding Hunter. The company's innovative history and attention to quality have made for many great collectible knives.
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Buck 110 DB

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First post.
30 years ago I was able to buy a few new Buck knives. I actually forgot about one. It is a 110DB/ 1787.
It's never been use still in the box.
Just checking to see if anyone would know the value.
Thanks for the help.
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Beekeeper1, i am not a Buck collector so i do not know the value of your 30 yr old Buck. If you post a 'couple' of pictures of knife & box and knife with blade open you are more likely to get a response from those who do know.
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Re: Buck 110 DB

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Here are a couple pictures that may help if someone know the value.
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Beekeeper1 wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 4:59 pm Here are a couple pictures that may help if someone know the value.
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Welcome! Nice Buck.
Sorry, I have no idea on the value.

The most common response to "what's the value of my..." is to search for similar items already sold on ebay. Let the market tell you the value.
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Beekeeper1...Welcome aboard! Hope you hang around and join in the fun.

You have a knife that I would say is "hard to find" nowadays. The one you have, only 3000 were made, albeit, it's not the rarest of the 110 Damascus folders made. (see below) Original cost of your knife was $70.00. As to its value now. ::shrug:: The value will be whatever someone wants to pay for a knife that is rarely seen. I had no idea these were ever made.

The following excerpt's were taken from BCCI and all credit is given to Joe Houser, Buck Historian. This information was posted in the March 2012 Newsletter.


Folding Hunters witH damascus blades by Joe Houser

I recently got my hands on a box from the discontinued model 110DB which is the Folding Hunter with a Damascus blade and jigged brown bone inlays. The box is so colorful and unique, showing the blade and front bolster on 3 sides, that it got my interest in the series. I decided it was time to roll up my shirt sleeves, warm
up the computer and my coffee, and start researching. Initially I found out that we made 8 or 9 110’s with a Damascus blade. All of them were introduced in 1989 or 1990 and it appears that all of them were discontinued by 1991. With a fairly short run period, you can expect that these knives will be hard to find today. The interesting thing that I discovered was that only 3 of them ever appeared in a Buck catalog. The brownbone, Redbone, and stag handled versions are those 3 and understandably, they are the ones that Buck made the most of. The winner is the 110DM stag, with more than 13,000 made. The 110FD black fibron, will likely be the most difficult to find today with a production of only 250 knives. Information on this series of knives is not all that abundant. After digging through all available sources I have more questions now than answers. I am pretty sure that Buck did one, possibly the 110DMK or the 110FD, that was serialized. I have reason to believe that there
is a model with nickel silver bolster and brown fibron inlays, but I can’t locate a model number in the archives. If you happen to have one of these, I would be very interested in anything you can share about it! I found date codes from 1988, 89, 90, and 91 stamped on the blades of the knives I inspected.
I hope this first blush data sheet will be helpful and as always, if you have any information to add, please contact me so I can share it with all our members.


110 Damamscus Blade

Model # Cat# Description QTY MSRP Yr Intro Yr Disco

110DB 1787 Folding Hunter, Damascus, brown bone, nickel silver 3000 $70.00 1990 1991
110DG 8095 Fold Hunter, Damascus Greybone 956 $70.00 1990*
110DM 1202 Fold Hunter, finger groove, Damascus black Fibron 489 $120.00 1990*
110DM 1684 Fold Hunter, Damascus, Stag, Nickel silver 13364 $160.00 1989 1991
110DMK 1854 Fold Hunter, Damascus, O **290 $153.00 1990*
110DR 1788 Fold Hunter, Damascus, Redbone, nick silver 1731 $70.00 1990 1991
110FD 8148 Fold Hunter, Damascus, black Fibron **250 $124.00 1989*
110PD 8171 Fold Hunter, Damascus, blue Fibron 489 $146.00 1989*
110* ? Fold Hunter, Damascus, brown Fibron, nick silver ? ? ?


** serialized? * Never appeared in a Buck Catalog.
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I have no idea of value, but thats a great looking knife.
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Absolute best thing is to go on Ebay and look at complete listings. Then you can see what they actually sold for. I think if it had a BIN price less than $200.00 it would go fairly quickly..I know 112's better than 110's but since I look on the bay often I can say it I don't see very many Damascus blade 110's often. Box ,shieth, paperwork really adds to the value.
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Re: Buck 110 DB

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i paid $330 for mine recently . i thought it was worth it
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