Posted 6 years ago
Jackielee
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It's stamped CASE in the handle. My guess is this knife is from the 1890s before CASE was a company. As the story goes, the four brothers were all knife crafters. They sold their hand crafted knifes out of a horse drawn wagon in western NY. It is very rare, I caint find but two pictures of this style knife on the internet !
Oh the handle looks to be rosewood, It realy needs alot of maintance.
That's a very romantic story, Jackielee, but the Case brothers got into the knife business as jobbers, in other words traveling salesmen calling on retail stores and taking orders for other manufacturer's knives, not "hand crafted" knife makers/salesmen. Eventually they bought factories and produced knives under their own name. Case did not produce sport hunting knives, such as yours, until 1925. Their knives would almost certainly have been marked on the blade just like their pocket knives were, so I suspect that this is a contract knife they bought from someone else and marked on the softer guard rather than on the hardened steel blade. The shape of the cast guard is unusual and would give a clue as to where the knife came from if you want to do the research necessary to identify it.
I believe research will prove UncleRon to be right.
I will add that the stamp on this knife is not a registered Case trademark and they always marked the tang. There are lots of fakes out there and I think you need to do a bunch of research.