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Last month ioshf303 asked about blue handled blades. At the same time my wife started asking what I wanted for xmas. So I told her a blue handled knife. Being a master shopper .... she found one. Looking for info on a SS Case Muskrat. Never had a knife with a blue handle or a muskrat. The muskrat knife design does not seem very popular. This Case knife does not have a model number.
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The idea of the muskrat pattern,I do believe as I understand it,the second identical blade was so when out afield if one got dull you had a " back up" . Later a variation with one "rat" clip & one warncliffe blade came about and was called a " Hawbaker" muskrat. Now that " Hawbaker" name, I'm almost certain,again,as I learned this,was from a trappers supply house with just that name See this : http://www.furfishgame.com/featured_articles/Archived/2013/2013-06/antique_traps_06-2013.phpI like this pattern for a pocket knife
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The Case Muskrat never had a pattern number,it had its name. Check the Case factory website for the variations in handle material and colors. http://www.wrcase.com/index_en.php
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One minor thing - this Case Muskrat came in a box. I liked that. Back in the day all new knives came in a box. Sad to say but along with the joy, happiness , confusion, xmas wrapping paper ... etc. the box got lost.
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What info are you looking for?
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Wondering what the blue handle material is.
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Wondering what the blue handle material is. The Case website lists the only Muskrats with blue scales as having bone scales; so likely cow bone, dyed and jigged.
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Depends on when it was made, Case is continuously adding bone colors and discontinuing bone colors. Here is a Case Muskrat from the late 1990's in "pocketworn" blue bone, I bought it still NIB in a shop about five years ago. They also have a jigged blue Rogers bone version that is current (has the "Chevy" style shield).
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