Queen Cobo Doctor's Knife - did it come only in 420?

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I have a Queen Cococbolo doctor's knife with the spear point blade and spatula. When I bought the knife, I believed it was D2. However, someone has told me they thought the spatula pattern was only done in 420HC.

To the best of my recollection, it was advertised as D2 by the merchant, although as of 5 minutes ago the merchant's website is not accessible to verify this. I do know I would not have bought it without D2 blades.

When I google the manufacturer's SKU, it almost exclusively yields results for the pattern with the large spear point blade and the small pen balde, but in every search result I've examined it says that pattern has D2 blades.

When I go to Queen's website and look under the cocobolo series, it says both the pen blade and the spatula patterns are 420HC. Every other knife with the cocobolo handles would appear to be D2.

http://www.queencutlery.com/cocobolo1.html

I've sent an email to Queen to inquire, hopefully their response will be prompt.

So my question is this: does anyone know if the doctor's knife, specifically the spatula pattern, was done in D2? I'm hoping to nail this down quickly because I have someone interested in buying the knife but, obviously, cannot complete the sale until I confirm the steel because I have advertised it as D2.
 
To the best of my knowledge, the two doctors patterns (the one with the pen secondary blade and the one with the spatula secondary blade) have never been made in D2, either the master spear blades or the secondary blades.

The D2 lines were introduced in 2002 and the early catalogs said D2 although none have had the special "PH-D2" tang stamp. This has been discussed and debated on the queen forum (Knifeforums) and no one has said that they have actually seen a Queen doc in D2. Some dealers advertise them as D2, I imagine because the early Queen catalog descriptions claimed D2.

Now even the Queen factory catalogs show the two doc patterns as 420.

The mystery remains as to why (other than the spatula blade itself) they do not make the doc blades in D2, when all other patterns in the line are D2.
 
Thanks for the reply. It would appear that I did not do enough homework when I got the knife in '05 and purchased 420 thinking it was D2. :foot:
 
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