DURANGO Knives Made By Colonial for Case

[knifeaholic]

I have posted about these before but I finally have some examples to show.

Colonial made these using the RANGER tooling for Case in about 1980-81. The knives themselves are marked DURANGO with no case markings, but the boxes that they came in had the Case logo.

I think that this represents all of the patterns made, except that there may have been a scout/utility knife as well.

Brass plated bolsters and maroon sawcut plastic handles.

[garddogg56]

them are fine looking knives

[msteele6]

Interesting knives, you can really see the Colonial DNA in those.

[ThatWeirdKnifeGuy]

I think that this represents all of the patterns made, except that there may have been a scout/utility knife as well.

Indeed. I just bought this one. I knew these were made for Case, found your post here while looking into it more.

The hawk blade is unmarked. Spear has DSI on the mark side and Durango stamped on the pile side. Is exactly like other late model Colonial Mountain Guides that I have.

[btrwtr]

Very interesting post Steve!

[knifeaholic]

I think that this represents all of the patterns made, except that there may have been a scout/utility knife as well.

Indeed. I just bought this one. I knew these were made for Case, found your post here while looking into it more.

The hawk blade is unmarked. Spear has DSI on the mark side and Durango stamped on the pile side. Is exactly like other late model Colonial Mountain Guides that I have.

Interesting knife!! Yours I believe is actually a factory error or an "end of days" knife. The Durango scout that I saw long ago had the same sawcut maroon handles as did the other patterns. So I'm guessing that yours is a "Swiss Master" that got the wrong blade.

I currently have a number of those with the Colonial stamp on the spear blade and the HIGH CARBON STEEL USA (Sears) stamp on the hawk blade. I got them in collection from a fomer Colonial employee.

[ThatWeirdKnifeGuy]

I think that this represents all of the patterns made, except that there may have been a scout/utility knife as well.

Indeed. I just bought this one. I knew these were made for Case, found your post here while looking into it more.

The hawk blade is unmarked. Spear has DSI on the mark side and Durango stamped on the pile side. Is exactly like other late model Colonial Mountain Guides that I have.

Interesting knife!! Yours I believe is actually a factory error or an "end of days" knife. The Durango scout that I saw long ago had the same sawcut maroon handles as did the other patterns. So I'm guessing that yours is a "Swiss Master" that got the wrong blade.

I currently have a number of those with the Colonial stamp on the spear blade and the HIGH CARBON STEEL USA (Sears) stamp on the hawk blade. I got them in collection from a fomer Colonial employee.

That's an even more interesting origin story than I thought. Did the camp utility you witnessed have a spear blade? This hawk could otherwise be a blade for a knife that never made it to production. I have another mountain guide that has Colonial on the spear and High Carbon Steel on the hawk like you mentioned, did Colonial make some knives for Sears or do you assume those were more knives cobbled from parts.

Also, do you happen to know what DSI stands for?