Hi,
Was out to the farm yesterday to clean up some storm damaged trees. While taking a break from the chainsaw, I was rummaging through an old desk in the original farmstead house. And I think I found my Grandfathers old Camillus Peanut, and perhaps his last knife, a Camillus Slim Senator Pen.
His old peanut, is as loose a a goose and both blades are literally ground to over half gone. I remember it doing everything from opening letters to scrapping points clean on a tractor, to castrating pigs. I picked it out of the old musty box, and I instantly was transported back to another time. And he stood there, in his Oshgosh bib overalls with his pipe in hand, smelling of Prince Albert pipe tobacco, with a corn field for a background. Now that I'm a Grandfather myself, I hope that someday my Grandchildren will remember me in like fashion.
The Slim Senator Pen isn't a knife that I remember him ever carrying. And I would remember this one if he did. With it's single pen blade and scissors stuffed into a peanut frame, it's very distinctive. I spent a little time doing an on-line search this morning, and came across a 1973 Camillus catalog with an ad for it. It's listed as being 2 13/16" closed and "features fine quality surgical stainless steel" for the small scissors and spear point blade. The scales are called "Sea-pearl" and have aged to a nice mellow, yellow tinge. Do any of you guys know if that pattern is older than that? My Grandfather died late in '73. So it is possible that he had it for a few short months before passing away. In any case, I will be sharpening it up, and it will get carried as my "dress" knife.
dalee
Was out to the farm yesterday to clean up some storm damaged trees. While taking a break from the chainsaw, I was rummaging through an old desk in the original farmstead house. And I think I found my Grandfathers old Camillus Peanut, and perhaps his last knife, a Camillus Slim Senator Pen.
His old peanut, is as loose a a goose and both blades are literally ground to over half gone. I remember it doing everything from opening letters to scrapping points clean on a tractor, to castrating pigs. I picked it out of the old musty box, and I instantly was transported back to another time. And he stood there, in his Oshgosh bib overalls with his pipe in hand, smelling of Prince Albert pipe tobacco, with a corn field for a background. Now that I'm a Grandfather myself, I hope that someday my Grandchildren will remember me in like fashion.
The Slim Senator Pen isn't a knife that I remember him ever carrying. And I would remember this one if he did. With it's single pen blade and scissors stuffed into a peanut frame, it's very distinctive. I spent a little time doing an on-line search this morning, and came across a 1973 Camillus catalog with an ad for it. It's listed as being 2 13/16" closed and "features fine quality surgical stainless steel" for the small scissors and spear point blade. The scales are called "Sea-pearl" and have aged to a nice mellow, yellow tinge. Do any of you guys know if that pattern is older than that? My Grandfather died late in '73. So it is possible that he had it for a few short months before passing away. In any case, I will be sharpening it up, and it will get carried as my "dress" knife.
dalee
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