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RalphAlsip wrote:It's been a while since I have had a mail call with an old Case knife in the mail box. Thanks to Steve knifeaholic the drought is broken with this Rogers bone Case Tested XX 6240 SP doglegg trapper. It is 4 7/16" closed.

WOW!!! That's a Grail knife for sure, congratulations on finding it!!!

Hard act to follow with that early Case beauty Ralph posted but these three came over the past few weeks and was out of town and busy so here's the group shot instead of one at a time:
1972 brownish red bone 06247
'40-64 red bone with some black 06247 PEN
'40-64 greenbone 62087
Middle one courtesy of Knifeaholic and I've been carrying and using it. Sweet knife. Thanks Knifeaholic.

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Treefarmer

Excellent Iman! I've been hoarding some of those 0247's lately myself.

Ivoryman wrote:Hard act to follow with that early Case beauty Ralph posted but these three came over the past few weeks and was out of town and busy so here's the group shot instead of one at a time:
1972 brownish red bone 06247
'40-64 red bone with some black 06247 PEN
'40-64 greenbone 62087
Middle one courtesy of Knifeaholic and I've been carrying and using it. Sweet knife. Thanks Knifeaholic.

Thunderwood wrote:

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Some sweet pickups, gents!

Ivoryman wrote:Hard act to follow with that early Case beauty Ralph posted but these three came over the past few weeks and was out of town and busy so here's the group shot instead of one at a time:
1972 brownish red bone 06247
'40-64 red bone with some black 06247 PEN
'40-64 greenbone 62087
Middle one courtesy of Knifeaholic and I've been carrying and using it. Sweet knife. Thanks Knifeaholic.

That 62087 Greenbone is really nice.

Thanks Farside, that was the key. Didn't have any green bone, always wanted to get some. Paid through the nose and out the tailpipe I figure forty or fifty more than the same thing in red bone. That hurts. Hopefully it will hold it's value.

5376. Dont get many case knives any more but I thought this might be a hard o e to find.

Wow, Keith, that one must be hard to find. It didn't even make it in the 1st addition of Knifeaholic's book. It is in the #9 traders price guide. Y'all sure come up with some fine ones!
Treefarmer

Nice find Keith. In my experience the 76 1/2 pattern is hard to find in any handle material and the stag version is really scarce. Your 5376 1/2 is the second one that I have seen and the first 5376 1/2 with long pull on the clip. My opinion is the long pull and multiple blades marked indicates it was made early in the Tested XX era.

Keith, wow great Stag knife. 76 1/2/is a rare dude

Very nice old Whit espn, love seeing stuff like that. Congrats, nice score.

Thanks guys for the comments and information. I guess I wasn't fully aware of its rarity.

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I also have one. Unfortunately photos do not do justice to how good a knife really looks sometimes.

Thanks to LuvStag for this 1979 XX that I recently acquired. My favorite Case knife.

As well it should be. Great little knife.

Knabbed for the neighbor, he doesn't surf at all, least I can do, so it's not mine, but it came here, and I took pics, and then I dropped it off to the real owner. Decent knife, I like the CV.

I picked this one up from Mr. Tom(Olderdogs1). It came today .Man oh man ,what a knife. Thanks Tom!

Greg, does the jigging pattern on your new Case have a name?

I think I would call it pocket worn QS. I think it got a lot of pocket time with not much use.

Thank you Greg. I am very weak on identifying jigging patterns other than something obvious like Winterbottom.

Greg, sweet pick up. Is it a 47 pattern?

RalphAlsip wrote:Greg, sweet pick up. Is it a 47 pattern?

Thanks Jerry! Tom says 630047.

That is a handsome knife Greg!