Case Straight Guard M3

[roosterinalabamy]

i purchased 1 at the Case auction in knoxville? nashville? many years ago. they were in a cardboard box with a couple other , shall we say, variants!
my understanding at the time was made for commercial market with surplus parts, the war effort being on the wane. no scabbards were in the box. well made completely authentic. my 2 pesos

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[SKIPH]

Roosterinalabamy-Great first hand information! I appreciate you input. As far as I'm concerned that pretty much confirms my initial assumption that they were commercial or PX items. Folks would naturally want to put one in an M6 or M8 scabbard, especially if the commercial ones were lousy. I'm gonna keep a chart, just for fun to see what type scabbards they show up in on ebay and other sights, also if parkerized or not. Curious to see where it goes. THX again SKIP

[Jos (Holland)]

Skip. At this moment there is one straight guard Case on ebay. It comes with a leather commercial scabbard. Just like the one I have. This reminded me that I had to look if my Cases had an ordnance bomb... unfortunately they didn't. What I did find is both knives were originaly parkerized but one has been polished to a chrome-like bright finish. The other still has all its parkerization.
Good luck with your research.