The Mystery: Were two knives listed on a COA ever made? I was happily adding the COA below to the each of the 1994 Classic elephant toenail knives. As I added it, I crossed that knife off the COA as completed. Over the years I had added pictures of almost all of them to KnifeDB.com […]
The First Ten Limited Editions
I had an old buddy write and ask about the first ten Limited Editions. He’s selling his. I pulled this together for him, then I thought that other collectors might also be interested.
Status Update on KnifeDB
As you know, KnifeDB.com is a work in progress. Here’s what has happened since the last update. 1. There are now 27,179 pocket knives in the database, up 582 since July. 2. The count of prices is up to 50,347, an increase of 1,189. This is important to collectors because these are the actual price […]
Case Collectors Club Knives-Summary and Finders Guide
In the table below you can see the 8 subcategories of CCC knives with their quantities. The second image shows part of the expanded Special Collector Searches tab from the Knife Search Page. The top arrow points to Collector Club. If you open this dropdown you can click on any of 8 club subcategories and […]
CCC – 3 Family Traditions Mint Sets
In 2008. the CCC members were offered a new opportunity. It was a two knife mint set of a medium and tiny toothpick-the “Family”. The knives have cabernet bone handles, scrolled bolsters, long tail C serial numbers, and Family Traditions blade work. Uniquely, the two knives were paired in a wooden box shaped to […]
CCC Knives – 2 The Junior Members
The Case factory initially launched the Case Collectors Club in 1981, and until 1989 only made one knife a year. But in 1990, as the club grew, the factory began to make annual knives for Junior, Regular and Life Members. This post deals with the Junior Member knives. The initial knife was made in 1990, […]
The Factory Case Collector Club Knives-1 The Early Years
The Case factory initially launched the Case Collectors Club in 1981. This first edition was a large trapper 6151 SSP. The factory offered this unique knife to Collectors for $40 with a wooden plaque. And the factory pattern would be similar until 1990. A single knife would be offered each year to the members of […]
Case Knife Collectors Club-Bechtler Mint
The Bechtler Mint Knife Club started in 1983 and made annual club knives until 2007. Most have: stag handles, elaborate blade work, serial numbers, scrolled bolsters and a replica $5 gold piece second shields. The Bechtler mint started minting gold coins in 1831, 17 years before the US government made any. The club was in […]
Case Collector Knife Clubs–Bold City
I like Case collector club knives. They have the necessary collector ingredients to help future values. They are rare, almost always fewer than 200 knives, sometimes as few as 25. They are frequently heavily embellished. Each new feature adds to original cost. And original cost frequently matches future cost. High today often translates into higher […]
A 2 Knife Set with 6 Knives
The set picture shows the two knife 1984 Call of the Wild set with gold wash blades. Notice that one of the knives has a straight ground tang, and the other has a new grind. At this time I have documented 6 different variations that occur in the set. If you go to KnifeDB.com you […]