Case figured out long ago that the best way to increase sales is to make them pretty and promote collectability. This way people keep buying them and not using them for fear of marking them up and hurting their value. Case knows a lot of people have acquisition disorders and Case keeps making something new to keep them forking over their cash. LOL.

Yeah, each knife has a history and sometimes you can feel a connection to it's story.

you are correct sir.people forget they are a tool.i have a couple collectable ones but i dont buy on line i always buy in person at a dealer.people bitch cuz they order on ebay and get junk.hell yeah someone ordered that shit and got a lemon and they resale it as new on line

He was I'll agree. At times he seemed arrogant and that turned a few people off. But I truly believe he was just in character of a king "holding court" and it was just play acting. All who knew him respected him. He was more Santa Claus than tough guy.

Fake

That is in mint condition. Yours probably isn’t mint

Knifes grade like coins

stfu willie

Willie Smith is probably right, because you didn't mention if your "$10 knife at a yard sale" is in mint condition. ALL values you see listed for any old knife, are mint condition knives. Willie Smith wasn't being rude to you, he simply stated a fact. But going by your rude & childish response, I highly suspect you are totally clueless about the knife you bought for $10 at a yard sale ( most people today are informed, and don't sell expensive old knives for cheap ), and you're just looking for attention. Any sincere person would mention the condition, vintage/age, handle material of a knife they found "for cheap" but is worth "hundreds more".

You're right. If the steel is no good it doesn't matter much about the looks or anything else.

@FlamQ Dbltap Right on ! Buy American or Starve !

You should use and enjoy them because any collector value that they could have had is cut in half because you had your name engraved on it.

Yep. Got a medium stockman from ebay and im about to send it back to case for repair already. The main blade folds back a few mms with barely any pressure.

So true new case knives are junk ,1970s or before is my picks .

There's a chart that shows the age of the knife by the markings on the blade, for instance they'll have dots or x's above/below the Case stamp on the tang, and you can tell how old it is from the number of x's or dots, here's a link to the chart. www.allaboutpocketknives.com/content/knife-manufacturer-specific-research/case-knife-reference-guide/case-knife-age-identification/

I know this is an old post/thread.........but for anyone interested, the answer to dating/aging Case pocketknives is not as simple as "an explanation" in the form of a typed or spoken sentence here. The ONLY way to properly date Case knives, especially the more desirable ( and more expensive ) years, is to research all of the tang stampings. Case used many different stampings throughout the years, and thankfully, due to their popularity, there are dozens of reliable sources online and in books that show diagrams of every tang stamp Case ever used, along with the dating them. It doesn't matter whether a person is interested in their values ( but they should, because you can pay far too much, or you can sell the good ones for far too little, if ya don't know what you're doing ) or not........the only proper way to date ( age ) ANY pocket knife, is to learn the various stampings used over the years.

Another link here that help me identify my knife. I assumed it was from the 90's when my dad had it as he really wasn't a "pocket knife" guy but the date/age of my 6318 SHSP from 1971 leads me to believe it was my grandfathers knife who passed to onto to my dad. www.allaboutpocketknives.com/price_guide/case/318/ It was pretty rusty and bad looking but with some elbow grease, wet sanding and patience it looks perfectly vintage and classic w/o making it "new again. I prefer the weathered but clean look to exhibit the "war stories" the knife could tell. :-]

Lol, I got it.

@Redbull 1 wow, you really got me good

BUY AMERICAN OR STARVE !

Well the thing is is that your wrong😐 Some of those knives are worth that sort of money. As far as using a picture of Jesus. It’s not a sin calm down bucko

I wouldn't put it that way necessarily but it seems there is a big division between the modern era and the older knives. The big interest in this group of collectors is the older models exclusively.

I agree he comes off that way and his smug attitude does seem to get a bit over the top. But he is a good fellow and I try to cut a little slack to old guys. The stick is "The king holding court" which we all have played. It's all a costume party and should be taken as just having fun. I don't think he means to come off as nasty. But I sure have met a few people in this arena who are jerks. They are well known, talented, accomplished, jerks. I'd like to expand on that but, it's complicated.

Go to their website and map around. You'll find what you are looking for.

Tony, loves the congress pattern he has the most complete collection of the finest and rarest of them.

Which "Old Timer" knives do you own? Has O.T. been around for very long? Are they USA Made? Thanks!

tedkenne , I’d bet you’re young and grew up on Spyderco and the like. What you don’t take into account is that, at one time in the US, Case, Schrade and all the other ‘vintage’ makers were all there was. Those old knives were made for work and that’s what working people carried and used...for many decades. If you needed something more than what a pocketknife could do you carried the appropriate straight knife. It used to be called ‘common sense’. The ‘Case’ of today has gone pretty far off the tracks from the real tools that they used to make. The guy in the video said as much. That’s why he sells the super collectible old knives that anyone would be lucky to have now or back then.

You should try one for a few years they are great.

56 Years Old With A Very Nice Collection Of Traditional Pocket Knives.@@BlueUT6

That guy guy is Tony Foster and he knows more about case knives than anyone on the planet,as a matter of fact case contacts him when they have a question about a case knife that needs answered...

It seems like your the out of touch one here

@@anthonywithem4929 very well spoken. I've known Tony for a very long time