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I was hoping some of you folks could shed a little light on these trappers. My grandpa gave me these in the late 90s. He said there was a problem with the licensing of the logo. Something about Case started making them before JD signed off on them?? I was just curious if someone could confirm or deny that story.
 
I'm guessing that there wasn't a big stink or scandal about this, so there's no story out there to have been heard by the public. Did your grandpa work for Case or John Deere? Or somewhere that he'd receive these knives when the rest of the public couldn't? If so, that'd make an interesting story about a couple of possibly rare (unique?) knives.
 
No he was associated with either one. He didn't assume the knives to be ultra rare. There was just the thought that they were the first run (possibly a bunch of them I guess), that was then halted due to the licensing issue. And it may have been a story someone told him to sell a few knives. I was just wondering if anyone else had ever heard of it.
 
I don't know anything about the story, but it should be easy enough to tell the age of the knives. Here's a link to Case's tang stamp guide. Click on any of the images from 1970 and up to see the stamps for each individual year. From your photo, it looks like somewhere between 1993 and 1999. The number of dots will tell you the exact year.
 
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