Gerber Mark II Knife Dating System Gerber Mk II Serial Numbers: Below is a list of the serial numbers on Gerber Mark II knives and the corresponding year in which they were made. Gerber mark ii production chart. Serial number: qty. Handle: blade: blade: blade: blade: sheath: sheath: knife name: year: range: made: color/material. The last Mark II serial number noted. However I have observed 1 knife in this serial range and believe. These knives do not have a serial number or Gerber.
GERBER Mark II™ PRODUCTION DATE INFORMATION Date or production tables relate Gerber Mark II serial numbers to the years they were manufactured. Nine major and several minor tables/lists exist. However there are some discrepancies between them. Remember, that in the early years, Gerber did not keep careful records. It was nearly 14 years later in 1981 that a table was compiled by Mr. Doug Hutchens, Survival Knife Historian at Gerber. I have attempted to use information from the lists to resolve some of the discrepancies, correct a few errors and insert more detail into the table.
However there are several serial range differences that I could not resolve. The following tables/lists were used to formulate my date table: • 1981 Hutchens Table - Mr. Doug Hutchens held several managerial positions at Gerber and was the Survival Knife Historian. • 1982 American Historical Foundation Table - Probably done by Robert Buerlein • 1984 Pete Gerber Desk List - List found in Pete Gerber Sr.' S desk • 1986 Unknown Origin Table - Table of unknown origin • 1997 Levine List - Published in Bernard Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values IV. Also found at (Over half way down page) • 199? Trzaska Table - Gerber_Numbers.jpg - Found at Frank Trzaska's site at (Over half way down page) • 199?
Gerberguy Table - 'GERBERGuy's GERBER LEGENDARY BLADES Collector's Website' originally found at and archived at • 199? Frost Matrix - 'Gerber Mark II Production History Matrix' by Robert Frost originally found at and archived at • 200? List - Info sheet by Donda Burnett, Gerber Consumer Affairs • 2008 Sarasota Info - • 2/10/09 Sarasota Table - http://simplysarasota.com/knifecollector/Gerber-MkII-Production-Chart.html.
GERBER KNIVES SIMILAR TO THE Mark II™ GERBER KNIVES SIMILAR TO THE Mark II™ Copyright ©2008-2018 by John T. Sabol SIMILAR KNIVES INTRODUCTION This section describes two models of Gerber knives that are similar to and often confused with the Gerber Mark II knife. These models are the Command II and the Guardian II knives. Also shown are several rare issues of these models. Each knife can be accessed from the active buttons above.
Download Hd Loader Ps2 Fat Hacks on this page. For each knife, one or more small thumbnail pictures are shown. By clicking on a thumbnail, you can access a high-resolution picture of the knife. GERBER COMMAND II The Command II knife is very similar to the Mark II.
Differential Diagnosis Of Common Complaints 4th Edition. It has the same handle and the blade is the same length. However the Command II blade differs in several ways.
First, the blade is not double-edged. Only the bottom edge and 3 inches at the front of the top edge are sharpened. Second, there are serrations (teeth) only on 2 of the 3 inches of the sharpened top edge. I've only noted one Command II blade without serrations. I don't know much about these knives. They were possibly designed for locations where a double-edged knife was illegal.
They are serialized in the same manner as the Mark II. They can be found with tool steel blades and 6-digit numeric serial numbers (e.g. 007203) as well as stainless steel blades with an alpha-numeric serial number (e.g. They were issued in two versions, the first with a satin finish blade and the second with a black blade. There were no camouflage versions of this knife. For the satin finish blade knives, the highest tool steel bladed serial number I've noted is 015197. The highest stainless steel bladed serial number I've noted is A9444S.
The black blade models were only offered in stainless steel. The black bladed serial number range I've noted is between A3512S and A8019S.
These serial number ranges imply that less than 22,700 of the Command II knives were produced. The Command II was probably produced only between late 1979 and 1982. I suspect that there wasn't a big demand for these knives and so they were discontinued. There are also several rare copies of the Command II model which are shown in the following sections.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The Mark II's serial number and date information does not apply to the Command II knives. The Command II knives have their own serial number ranges. Photo: eBay 06/2005 Photo: eBay 06/2005 Photo: Ad in SOF July 1979 FORCE II When Gerber first designed the Command II model they initially called it the Force II.
They even had labels made up for the boxes. Then for some unknown reason, Gerber decided to hold a contest to rename the knife. The contest was run in Soldier of Fortune Magazine. However, Gerber evidently shipped an unknown number of these knives to their dealers before the knife was renamed. The only difference between these early knives and the Command II is the label on the white boxes. Back in June of 2005 a Force II knife was sold on eBay.