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[Justink0101]

Bought this off an individual and would just like experienced members to confirm it’s real deal please.

Case backpocket TB71546 1/2 SS

[Mumbleypeg]

It’s real.

Ken

[treefarmer]

Adding to Ken's comment, I believe that knife handle is Black Curly Maple according to the internet. A Case with TB in the pattern numbers is usually a notch above regular Case knives. TB are the initials of Tony Bose a well known bladesmith. He passed away several years ago.
Your knife should be a fine one!
Treefarmer

[1967redrider]

Awesome knife.

[Justink0101]

Thanks fellas

[knifeaholic]

Looks like a single blade "Panama Trapper".

[Mumbleypeg]

It does look like a “fat” Panama Trapper. I think the 546 pattern was introduced in 2010, and called the “Tony Bose Backpocket”. Case has made it with a lanyard hole, and with a cap bolster. The early versions I’ve seen had a lanyard hole and a leather lanyard. It’s been offered in several handle materials and most commonly with a single long clip blade which was the first, and still the most common version.

They also later released a version having a single long spear blade (the OP knife). That version is unusual in that the Case pattern number has a “1/2” suffix, which usually is used to denote the presence of a clip blade on patterns that originated with a spear master blade. In this 546 pattern that convention is reversed - the original 546 has a clip master. For whatever reason, here Case has used the 546-1/2 number to denote a spear master blade.

Below is my one and only Bose Backpocket, a TB71546. (Carried and used). Black G10 Micarta covers.

Ken