50th Anniversary Buck 110- use or lock away?

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EODPAul

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Hey all,
I'm the proud owner of a boxed 110 50th anniversary with the medalion and leather sheath.
I'm tempted to carry it and keep it clean and shiny like my other EDC knives, but almost feel guilty about carrying what could be a collector's item.

Opinions?
 
Keep in mind that EVERY 110 made this year is an anniversary knife...bet that's a million of them.... won't be that valuable.
They're cheap, use 1 and store 1.
 
Roger that. Here, in Belleville Ontario, Canada, they're actually hard to find locally. I'll seek oit another and not touch it, except to open and close it a million times.
I'll be using this one in the meantime!

Cheers.
 
I was wondering the exact same thing. I picked up a finger-grooved model early in the year that had the first tang stamp, just an anvil and 50. It seemed too nice to use so I kept it in the box. Earlier this month I picked up another one that is not finger grooved at a Bass Pro Shop with the different tang stamp. This one isn't as nice as the finger groove. Not Bucks fault, but it was a display and looks like it might have been dropped and already had a ding on the brass and a scratch on it so I figured that this one would be perfect for a user.
 
As long as you have another "user" Buck 110 you could preserve the Anniversary model (that's what I have done with two - except I destroyed the clamshells). However, as DeSotoSky has pointed out, there will be a couple of boxcar loads of these made this year - so their value is not going to be much higher than the standard, current vintage, Buck 110. In other words - do what you please with it! OH
 
If you want collectibles, I'd aim to aquire all 3 tang stamps. From what I can tell, 2 are boxed and the one currently I'm the big-boxes are in that annoying molded plastic case. The latter has the anvil to the right of Buck USA. Get one of each and an extra plastic pack as a user. I'd do it but my
Knife budget for the next three months has been blown on 500 series and 112s.

There's a forum thread describing the 3 50th anniversary tang stamps.

BTW, if you are planning to buy hold and sell, they will probably take a few years to appreciate, and I doubt they would outpace inflation.
 
I have two 110s — a two-dot and one from 2012 — and both are straightforward "users."

My third, a 50th, is also a user, but I'm sort of easing it into that role, keeping it away from tasks that might actually age it faster than nature will. But in the end, it's a user too.

One point collectors should always remember. Anything sold or kept as a collectible has little or no chance of appreciating much in value over the long term. (Bad as money market returns are, you'd do better with them.) Too many people keep their "collectibles" in untouched shape, thus preserving them pristine. This sounds great, but what gives an item monetary value is rarety. The ugly truth is many others of its kind must die to give your collectible rarety value.

Or you can do as I do — view the accumulation of nicks, scuffs, scars, and tarnish as hash marks on a fine tool that has given honorable service.
 
jamestap said:
..... I'd aim to aquire all 3 tang stamps. ....
There's a forum thread describing the 3 50th anniversary tang stamps...
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I am aware of two different tang stamps, the original with the Anvil over USA and later BUCK/USA with the Anvil to the right. What is the third?
 
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Jamestap, there are some knives where 2013 and 2014 parts are mixed, is that what you are mean by the third variation?
 
I have the 50th anniversary 110 that doesn't say Buck on the tang and I carry it off and on, it got scratched up and the brass bolsters have dents. Honestly I would be ashamed to have a pretty boy knife with no scratches and dings, this knife is meant to be used....Gas cost almost 5 dollars a gallon so I am not spending my hard earned dollars on knife jewelry, I use my knives to cut things. IMO the 50th anniversary 110 looks better when it looks like it has been used.
 
Thanks for the responses everyone. I'm going to look for a "collectible" one (or all 3) and use the one I have now. We'll be heading to the states later this year, so I'm hoping to have better luck there in my search.
I use all the knives in my "collection". I don't have a lot of expensive knives, but what I do have are all solid, well built and well used. I've recently become very re-interested in Buck, having a Vantage force Avid (aluminum scales), a Vantage Select (small), a Buck/TOPS CSAR-T 095 folder (my favorite knife) and now the 110 50th. I have also, somewhere, a 110 I bought at Thule AFB in 1989. Buck is an amazing knife company, with incredible products and support.

Again, thanks for the ideas!

Paul
 
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Just today I picked up the one stamped Buck USA with the anvil to the right of that with 50 inside the anvil. I had no idea there were different versions of the 50th anniversary 110. The store I got it from had a special edition but I thought the only difference was the display case and little certificate or something like that included.

Anyway this is the first folder and first "traditional" knife from Buck that I've owned, and I'm so pleased with the look, feel, blade, just everything, that I need to pick up a few more 110's. Maybe grab the display one, use this one, and buy another to hand down to my son when he's older (Only 5 months now, my first child) but I have no idea if he'll even be into knives or fishing/hunting/outdoors/etc. Something tells me he will be :). I'd like to hand him down something more expensive and still may, but these are just absolutely beautiful knives. My 1998 Buck Nighthawk 650 is my favorite fixed blade I own but I only picked up the 110 after reading so many positive reviews on here. Once I held it, that was all it took. I love these 110's.
 
Store the one you've already got, then buy a finger-grooved one for a user. IMO, after using a finger grooved 110, the standard one feels like holding a brick.
 
Woodcamo Nut said:
I have the 50th anniversary 110 that doesn't say Buck on the tang and I carry it off and on, it got scratched up and the brass bolsters have dents. Honestly I would be ashamed to have a pretty boy knife with no scratches and dings, this knife is meant to be used....Gas cost almost 5 dollars a gallon so I am not spending my hard earned dollars on knife jewelry, I use my knives to cut things. IMO the 50th anniversary 110 looks better when it looks like it has been used.
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I think I also have the same version, no medallion or Buck stamp, a "sterile" blade. I couldn't imagine having not used it. Since I got it, it's been a solid friend.

OP, use the heck out of the 50th:

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Mine's the version with the anvil outline around the number 50 and nothing else. Bought it sight unseen at Menard's, and didn't know until I got the package home and opened it. Of the variant year-markings I've seen, it's the one I'd have chosen from all of them. So happy, happy, happy.
 
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