All About Pocket Knives

I'm not beating this seller up and suspect he knows very little about knives, but this is not a Case knife. I've kind of studied the photos and think the 2 blades at the top end are not original to the knife. Look at the nail pull on the blade where the sheepsfoot blade is supposed to go. Isn't that a master blade that has been worked down to fit the opening? Bottom end pen blade may be right, but it isn't profiled like the top end blades at all. I think I would pass on it for even $10. Boat anchor material.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Case-3 ... 1438.l2649

Yes he's not a knife person and has no idea what it is. At least he started it at $10 and not $1000.

The seller called it a Case knife just because they think they've seen similar shields on a Case knife?? That's just silly.

What a joke, a knife with no markings can now be declared a Case knife by someones opinion. Sad to say he will probably sell it to someone who will further embellish the story.

It just dawned on me, I've heard several persons use the term "Case knife" when referring to a pocket knife recently. I always try to eyeball the knife and the last couple of times it is was not a Case. Do y'all suppose that is a colloquial term in some areas or possibly age groups for a folding knife? Come to think of it the last couple of times I heard it, it was used by women. Possibly her dad carried a Case....
Treefarmer

treefarmer, I haven't heard "Case" used that way, but I sure have "Buck". Maybe it's a regional thing? Where I grew-up, Buck knives were much more commonly available than Case. My Dad would call any fixed blade hunting knife worn in a belt sheath a "Buck knife".

Reminds me of my younger days. Any carbonated non-alcoholic beverage was a Coke.

treefarmer wrote:It just dawned on me, I've heard several persons use the term "Case knife" when referring to a pocket knife recently. I always try to eyeball the knife and the last couple of times it is was not a Case. Do y'all suppose that is a colloquial term in some areas or possibly age groups for a folding knife? Come to think of it the last couple of times I heard it, it was used by women. Possibly her dad carried a Case....
Treefarmer

Phillip when I was a youngun my granny always used the term case knives to refer to the fancy steak knives that she kept in the china cabinet in a "CASE".

Pretty sure it's a 1920's-early 30's Imperial or Colonial and looks to be all original. There may still be a faint stamp under the grunge. Shipping's a bit high, but otherwise for the condition, $10 would be about right. Just a lack of knowledge and/or wishful thinking on the sellers part.


WB

treefarmer wrote:It just dawned on me, I've heard several persons use the term "Case knife" when referring to a pocket knife recently. I always try to eyeball the knife and the last couple of times it is was not a Case. Do y'all suppose that is a colloquial term in some areas or possibly age groups for a folding knife? Come to think of it the last couple of times I heard it, it was used by women. Possibly her dad carried a Case....
Treefarmer

When I was about six I asked my Uncle what a case knife was. He said it was a knife that folded. This was in the
Florida panhandle about 1952.

Phillip when I was a youngun my granny always used the term case knives to refer to the fancy steak knives that she kept in the china cabinet in a "CASE".
That’s just dang funny.
Mark

edgy46/Bill,
1952 was 21 years before we moved to the Panhandle. So it appears the definition is still alive and well!
Thanks for helping me run that rabbit even though we are off Bob's original post.
Treefarmer

I can believe that people would use the name Case to describe any pocket knife. But you have to be more "Pacific" than that in selling items.
Another one people use for any small pocket size radio is to call them "transistor" radios, which of course they are, but all modern radios are also "transistor" radios even the ones in your car and homes.

Fun fact: the main CPU in the latest Microsoft Xbox One gaming console has over 5 billion transistors in a square that is 0.6" on each side.

TwoFlowersLuggage wrote:Fun fact: the main CPU in the latest Microsoft Xbox One gaming console has over 5 billion transistors in a square that is 0.6" on each side.

How would you like to be the poor guy who had to count them.