Case knife collecting?

[titan14]

Anyone collect Case knives?

A friend of mine has started buying Case pocket knives and I remember my grandfather buying and collecting them...

Are there any online sources for values?...number manufactured?....etc...

[willis68]

At one time I had over 70 of them, several years ago I lost them unfortunately, here is a pretty good site to search around for references Select WR Case Knives, WR Case knives, WR Case XX, WR Case, pocketknives, WR Case collector knives, WR Case

[titan14]

Thanks Willis!

[willis68]

Welcome

[lewisbd]

Anyone know what the value of the Numbered Collectors Edition knives go for? I heard they quit making them a couple years back. I used to have several but the only ones ive been able to locate are the Collectors Edition with white display box.

[inspecting1]

From most of what I could find in my research unless the numbered peices are in the single digits there is usually not much value in them. The knives to watch are the ones that are carried daily. If you think about it makes sense Supply and Demand. If you have 100 knives that are listed as collectors items and all 100 of them are bought and put up. You will always have 100 of these knives. Now if you have 10000 case XX yellow handle trapper and everybody buys ine and uses it except for you. Now the knife you bought you put it in the gun cabinet and never use it. Guess which knife will be worth the most? Now once past that you have knives that for one reason or another make them special. Knives with special scales, blades, or bolsters can cause them to maintain or rise in value. Something else to note that when collecting knives is the boxes. Most people through the boxes away almost imidiatley after buying so the boxes could be worth more than the knives. With all this said you have to remember that a knife is worth no more than what someone is willing to pay for it.

Buy the way If somebody is into collecting Case knives or german steel and would like to do some trading drop me a line. We might can do some trading or at least BS about knives I will say I'm kinda picky about my knives. I like Case Trappers (I can do most anything with it. There is ALWAYS a trapper in my pocket) Tacticool knives (it takes a whole lot to impress me)

[willis68]

From most of what I could find in my research unless the numbered peices are in the single digits there is usually not much value in them. The knives to watch are the ones that are carried daily. If you think about it makes sense Supply and Demand. If you have 100 knives that are listed as collectors items and all 100 of them are bought and put up. You will always have 100 of these knives. Now if you have 10000 case XX yellow handle trapper and everybody buys ine and uses it except for you. Now the knife you bought you put it in the gun cabinet and never use it. Guess which knife will be worth the most? Now once past that you have knives that for one reason or another make them special. Knives with special scales, blades, or bolsters can cause them to maintain or rise in value. Something else to note that when collecting knives is the boxes. Most people through the boxes away almost imidiatley after buying so the boxes could be worth more than the knives. With all this said you have to remember that a knife is worth no more than what someone is willing to pay for it.

Buy the way If somebody is into collecting Case knives or german steel and would like to do some trading drop me a line. We might can do some trading or at least BS about knives I will say I'm kinda picky about my knives. I like Case Trappers (I can do most anything with it. There is ALWAYS a trapper in my pocket) Tacticool knives (it takes a whole lot to impress me)

This is the number 1 mistake people make when buying knives, they throw away the boxes and paperwork which at times do become more valuable than the knife that they housed, besides that when selling a knife having the box and all paperwork that came with it makes it much much more valuable to collectors and even some users