The Elephant Toenail pattern's been around for over a hundred years and is favored by both production and custom knife collectors. They come in hundreds of flavors, which is good cause we pattern collectors love variety!

Saw one the other day I had to show you. It's the standard style toenail. And is a Case XX Redbone. The redbone is very popular- only the rare XX Greenbone toenail is more sought after, as far as the XX's go anyway.

We'll save the redbone talk for another day, but when I ran across this one it spoke to me- just not sure what it is said :)

The seller reports this knife to a special made edition for the United States Navy and includes their symbol riveted on it.

Somebody tell me they've seen one of these before? I know I haven't. It should be fairly easy to confirm since the XX was only made 45- 69 years ago.

I think we best head over to the Case Fans Group to talk to Fred. Maybe he can research Case's records for any evidence of this knife. It's good to have a local resident expert here within our community, isn't it?

Oh yeah, did I tell you this knife is for sale on eBay?