Messages from the Blademaster

The American Blade Collectors Ass0ciation club would be the predecessor to the International Blade Collectors.  Here are the CASE XX knives I have documented so far. Number of Knives — 6 First year -1987        Last Year 1993 High Edition Quantity -3500      Low Edition Quantity – 600            

What Factors Make Some Knives More Valuable* RARITY—Knives made in smaller editions tend to bring more $$ BEAUTY—You know it when you see it. The handles and embellishments affect this the most. CONDITION—the scratches, fades, rust and others subtract $$. CUSTOMIZATION–Every factory embellishment adds additional cost when the knife is made. ORIGINAL PRICE—The higher the […]

The BladeMaster has documented eighty-one Colt and Case pocket knives on KnifeDB.com.  The first was made in 1981, and the last in 2015, which is as far as I have gotten.  14 of the 81 are stag.  These begin in 1989 and the last one currently seen is from 2014.  You can see all the […]

I have found 5 knives from this Michigan club and documented them on KnifeDB.com.  The tang dates range from 2000 to 2005.  Each knife has a second shield, and expensive blade work.   The quantities are limited, ranging from only 21 to 25 knives per year.  The blade dates and the tang dates only match on […]

Try this one, Collectors.  Go to Advanced Knife Search after logging in.  Then… The Custom Work Page appears, then… The different styles of long tail C serial numbers appear.  But I am only showing the first two…   Notice that the first picture has an R in a circle.  This indicates that the long tail […]

Here are 5 SparXX shields I have documented so far.   The SparXX shields have small glittery spots in the shield background.  Notice that each shield has a knife count.  You can click on “Show Knives” and the individual knives with that shield will show up for you.   If you want to go look at these […]

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 […]

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. 

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 […]

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 […]