Rumor Mill- Case discovers a prototype toenail from its earliest days!
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In case you haven’t heard yet, let me share my first-hand information I learned today about a rumor that has been circulating for about a week now of an extremely rare discovery by Case last week.
One of the aspects we benefit from when we specialize in a knife pattern as we do here at ET.com is because we are like blood hounds constantly tracking anything and everything toenail related, so when W R Case makes a “discovery,” as they often do, that affects us, we recognize its significance immediately.
Today, I was contacted by one of my friends who works for Case- actually he left me 4 messages, 3 emails and 2 texts to my phone. I couldn’t help but sense he wanted to talk to me pretty badly- I thought it was about my helping them with the auction at the Case Collectors Appreciation Day in July. But it turns out, it was something else.
Case was going through one of their old warehouses and found a small box back in the corner under a bunch of boards and papers. Upon opening it they found some knives. Actually they were all prototypes of knives from about 1915-1920.
One of these knives was- you guessed it- a toenail, but not just your every day run of the mill old Case toenail, this one was a prototype 4 blade toenail!
I couldn’t stand it! I wanted to hop on a plane right then and go see that jewel, but I knew that was out of the question at that time. Later than day, Case send me an email with an attachment. It was a picture of what has to be one of the rarest toenail known. Obviously, this knife was carefully cleaned (but not taken apart) by Case once they found it, along with the other knives they found.
So here is it- 
BUT WAIT- LISTEN TO THIS CAUSE THAT IS NOT ALL: I also learned Case is going to donate that one of a kind knife to the Elephant Toenail Collectors Club! Can you believe it. They could have easily stuck this in their museum, or let me auction it at the Case Appreciation Day in July, instead they said because the knife has such significance and the toenail pattern is so overwhelming appreciated by the members here at ET.com that (more…)
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