Coins, jewelry, stock certificates and your Case knife collection – all of these are items to be stored away for safekeeping. There are many valuable items at Case, but the most prized would be the knives we make. Or more accurately, the knife patterns we make – like the Case Trapper, Case Peanut or Case Seahorse Whittler. The Case patterns, and there are more than 140, are treasures not only for the factory, but they are prized by our collectors. That’s why the time is right for Case to build a vault - the Case XX Vault - where knife tooling will be stored for safekeeping.

The new Case XX Vault program actually takes effect January 1, 2008. It calls for four popular Case patterns and all related tool works to be locked away inside the “Case XX Vault” for a period of at least three years before being reintroduced to the public.  
 
The reasons to institute this program are twofold. First, there are the manufacturing concerns involved in operating a factory with 140 different knife patterns. Meeting the incredible customer demand for hand-crafted Case knives is a real challenge; one that is magnified each year as Case introduces new knife patterns. Second, and more importantly, this program will be a tremendous benefit for Case Collectors. The time a pattern is on hiatus will give the Case Collector time to find those rare knives missing from their collection. At the same time, the knives already in their collection are likely to become even more valuable.