This article on the Case Folding Pocket Knife attempts to explain their popularity.

Some Of The Reasons For The Continued Popularity Of The Case Pocket Knife by Gregg Hall

I have been a knife enthusiast from the very beginning and naturally I’ve gotten enough experience with them to enable me to value different types of knives. As a matter of fact, a wonderful knife that has been skillfully crafted from high quality steel is so awesome that anyone would appreciate it. Knives are undoubtedly one of the most significant tools for mankind and shall always remain so even after thousands of years. Since sharp implements with a stainless steel blade are one of the most essential items in every
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Fishing Gear. What were they saying about it way back when?

PIKE-TACKLE. SPINNING AND TROLLING-RODS.

An idea — happily now nearly exploded — has prevailed amongst trollers since the time of Nobbes of the Dark Ages, that a pike-rod should necessarily be a clumsy rod — a thick, unwieldy, weighty, top-heavy weapon — in fact, a sort of cross between a hop-pole and a clothes-prop.

Whatever our pike-fishing ancestors may have been in the matter of skill, it cannot be denied that their rods and angling gear generally were in every way vastly inferior to our own,
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