The 1970 years.

In 1970, Case initiated the modern era in knife collecting. The 1970 knife tangs had ten dots on them. Then Case removed one dot for each of the next 9 years. In 1980, the ten dots appeared again, but the S in Case was changed to reflect the new decade.

Note that in the year tangs there continue to be many variations. For example: there may or may not be periods in the USA. The USA may have spaces between the U S A or not. The dots may be placed differently. For the purposes of this help lesson, these cannot all be displayed. If you wanted to see all the 1970 tang stamps, you would go to "TANGS" and select the year 1970.

Also, note that the dot line is consistently the last line in the tang stamp in the 1970's. The result is that some bolsters, like on the Canoe (62131) hid the dots making the determination of the year virtually impossible on some knives.

1970 - Ten Dots
1975 - Five Dots
1979 - One Dot