Thread: Beautiful old red bone! (JimmyHAD will appreciate this)

Okay. I know we have a few knife fanciers out there so I thought I would post some pictures of the oldest Case knives I own (not my Case razors. They are likely older).
In the scans below you will see five jack knives. The top two are dated between 1940 and 1964. I have heard them called "Torpedo Jacks". The third knife is dated between 1965 and1969. This knife is in the typical Barlow style. The scales are sawcut red bone as opposed to the jigged red bone you see on the other four knives. The fourth knife is a thinner torpedo jack with a spear blade as the main blade as opposed to the clip blade on the other four. All four of the knives in the first picture have a secondary blade known as a pen blade. The fifth knife is one of Jimmys favorites. It is a 62048 Case knife. The 6 indicates that it has bone scales. The 2 indicates the number of blades. The 048 indicates the style. In this case the style is a Slimline Trapper, also known as a Farmers knife or Dixie switch. The main blade as I have mentioned is a clip blade but the secondary blade on this knife is not a pen as on the others but a spey blade and the name does indicate the purpose for this blade.

Without further ado:

Nice! I like the clip blades.
Do you happen to know what they dyed the bone with? Its a great color!

I am not certain but I have heard the color referred to as chestnut. In fact I have a WR Case made this year with chestnut scales that look almost identical to the old red bone scales.

Thanks Mark, lovely images to look at over my morning coffee. They were great old knives and didn't cost a week's pay back in those days. I've always loved those scales that showed a little white on the edges as on that Barlow. Those were the ones that the distributors would put on the knife board displays to pull the customers.

The only Redbone I know:
YouTube - Redbone - Come And Get Your Love