Case xx USA 5299 1/2

[Potechop]

This one’s for sale on eBay . Looks to me like it could have been a yellow composition and handles went bad and was replaced with Stag that doesn’t look like what case uses. The shield has big pins showing . Blades look like they been worn some and polished. The pattern number can’t be seen and I had tons of USAs and saw very few without pattern number not on the blade. Might have been ground off so couldn’t see the 3 for yellow handle. I been wrong before on some I think have been worked on but someone likes this knife to bid 189 on it.

[herbva]

I think you are totally correct. First of all, the rest of the blades look way too good for the tang stamp to just be "worn off". I have rehandled a lot of 3299"s in stag and when I do sell one, I clearly disclose that this was a 3299 with yellow synthetic handle scales that I have replaced with stag.

[edge213]

Rehandled, but it sure is a good looking knife.

[Mumbleypeg]

Agree, rehandle in stag. Which is fine if represented as such. As pointed out, a USA era Case should have a pattern number. The fact that someone took the trouble to remove it makes it a counterfeit IMHO.

Ken

[stockman]

Common practice on celluloid Case knives without a pattern number. Get a tested one that the handle is stag or pearl and looks a little too good it might be. Harold

[Modern Slip Joints]

The rehandle and buffing is so obvious even I could sot it right off the bat. Removing the number is proff of an effort to defraud. Collector value is zero, but goodness, as a sucker for affordable stag it would be welcome in my pocket for the right price.

[bighomer]

The rehandle and buffing is so obvious even I could sot it right off the bat. Removing the number is proff of an effort to defraud. Collector value is zero, but goodness, as a sucker for affordable stag it would be welcome in my pocket for the right price.

Me too but a 189 bucks ain't close to my right price.

[mking121]

Never seen a shield put on like that. Case always glues theirs. I've had several shields come off. Just a spot of glue, just what the Doctor ordered. I have also, never seen the Tang Stamp rub off that way. Just my thoughts, could be wrong.

[Mumbleypeg]

Never seen a shield put on like that. Case always glues theirs. I've had several shields come off.

Case did not start gluing shields until the late 1970s. Prior to that they were attached with pins. The OP knife purportedly is a 1965-1969 knife, which if correct would have a pinned shield. However the pins were “blended” during hafting so they were not usually readily visible like those on the OP knife.

Ken

[mking121]

Thank You for that. I learned something.