The CASE XX Historical Price Archive and Artificial Intelligence
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The CASE XX Historical Price Archive and Artificial Intelligence

I wanted to see the impact of  AI on  KnifeDB.com.  After all, if you can just tell AI to find a price for any specific Case pocket knife, then there is no sense in my continuing to add knives and prices while attempting to make a powerful price guide for collectors.  I first asked how much a 1970 5254 is worth.  The answer was not bad: it talked about condition and gave a  general range of prices.  As I worked two different AI programs, this became clear to me.  The AI programs can provide general answers but are not good at specifics.  For example, I told ai to show a picture of every 2016 muskrat with prices.  It showed 4, while I have almost 40 documented.  And the prices were general, and not attached to any of the four knives it put forward.  I asked for all 2015 sets and it showed some of them, but  not all.  So I have decided to continue my work on Case xx knife values.  The following table may be of interest to collectors.  It shows the number of knife variations currently documented by years.  I am currently working on 2016, and you can tell that the years after that still need most work done.  The very early knives (before 1915) also need nore focus.  But between 1915 and 2016 I would put KnifeDB at a 90+ percent data completion level.  There are over 30,000 Case XX pocket knives in the database.  Most have at least one actual selling price.  And these are adjusted twice a year for inflation to give the serious Case XX the most accurate price information avialable anywhere.  Period

 

Currently  Documented Pocket
Knife Variations in KnifeDB.com
Current Knife
Year Variation Count Subtotal Name
1900-1912 279 279 Case Brothers
1902-1915 137 416 W.R. Case & Sons
1914-1919 128 544 Bradford Era
1920-1939 917 1461 Case Tested Era
1940-1964 608 2069 Case XX Era
1965-1969 269 2338 Case XX USA
1970 196 2534
1971 140 2674
1972 141 2815
1973 178 2993
1974 182 3175
1975 144 3319
1976 222 3541
1977 168 3709
1978 190 3899
1979 231 4130
1980 217 4347
1981 353 4700
1982 279 4979
1983 249 5228
1984 385 5613
1985 335 5948
1986 309 6257
1987 220 6477
1988 209 6686
1989 852 7538
1990 478 8016
1991 496 8512
1992 540 9052
1993 409 9461
1994 498 9959
1995 462 10421
1996 579 11000
1997 598 11598
1998 616 12214
1999 491 12705
2000 827 13532
2001 768 14300
2002 886 15186
2003 1099 16285
2004 1130 17415
2005 1071 18486
2006 1151 19637
2007 1204 20841
2008 1215 22056
2009 1097 23153
2010 1146 24299
2011 977 25276
2012 1008 26284
2013 887 27171
2014 1153 28324
2015 1055 29379
2016 851 30188 In progress
2017 23 30211 Needs Work
2018 23 30234 Needs Work