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Win a Custom Fastball + 1970's Folding Knife. To celebrate National Knife Day and honor the past and present of Gerber, we are giving away a Gerber Custom Fastball (designed by you), as well as a late 1970’s Sportsman’s Folder, an iconic and sought after knife found only in the Gerber. 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. 1,001 to 5,000 = 1967 5,001 to 9,900 = 1968 9,901 to 14,350 = 1969 14,351 to 19,300 = 1970 19,301 to 23,750 = 1971 23,751 to 28,000 = 1972. Gerber knife serial number lookup. Based on the nature of your inquiry, please select from the following convenient alternatives I ve found what I could online, but nothing with these numbers to show Each blade has 0016 etched next to the handle, other side has gerber Item number 4 Barrel is 24.5 long. In 1969, near the serial number of the knife in question, the handle changed from steel 'cat's tongue' to grey 'armorhide' so that might account for the discrepancy. According to the matrix the knife is not quite at the serial number for this change but we've already established that these feature changes didn't exactly happen as documented. The very early serial number - as best Gerber or anyone else can tell, Gerber began the serial numbering at 001001 - strongly suggests it is the 268th LMF to be manufactured. Beginning roughly in 1989 they switched to what I call the 'second-pattern' knives (in the case of saw-backed blades, the Model 5959).

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.

Gerber Bmf Knife

The Tables/Lists Used to Formulate My Date Table:

Gerber Knife Serial Number Lookup List

1. 1981 Hutchens Table - Mr. Doug Hutchens held several managerial positions at Gerber and was the Survival Knife Historian.
2. 1982 American Historical Foundation Table - Probably done by Robert Buerlein
3. 1984 Pete Gerber Desk List - List found in Pete Gerber Sr.'s desk
4. 1986 Unknown Origin Table - Table of unknown origin
5. 1997 Levine List - Published in Bernard Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values IV. Also found at
   http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/knife_knotes_4.htm (Over half way down page)
6. 199? Trzaska Table - Gerber_Numbers.jpg - Found at Frank Trzaska's site at
   http://www.usmilitaryknives.com/knife_knotes_8.htm (Over half way down page)
7. 199? Gerberguy Table - 'GERBERGuy's GERBER LEGENDARY BLADES Collector's Website' originally found at
   http://www.gerberknives.com/militarysurvival.htm and archived at
   http://web.archive.org/web/20040113191559/http://www.gerberknives.com/militarysurvival.htm
8. 199? Frost Matrix - 'Gerber Mark II Production History Matrix' by Robert Frost originally found at
   http://home.comcast.net/~rfrost70/Mark2.htm and archived at
   http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:AgzkigcJmRUJ:home.comcast.net/~rfrost70/Mark2.htm
9. 200? Gerber C.A. List - Info sheet by Donda Burnett, Gerber Consumer Affairs
10. 2008 Sarasota Info - http://simplysarasota.com/knifecollector/GerberKnifeDates.html
11. 2/10/09 Sarasota Table - http://simplysarasota.com/knifecollector/Gerber-MkII-Production-Chart.html