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My dad gave me this knife recently. My mom had given it to him around 25-30 years ago as a gift. They were visiting Boston to see the tall ships and she found it in a little shop.
Camillus #24 Jack with simulated ivory handles...3" long, brass liners and a small, barely noticeable ez-open indentation for the pen blade. In the catalog drawings there is no ez-open, but in looking through Internet pics, I see some 24s with and some without. Stainless steel blades with a couple of little spiderweb spots. Tang stamp makes it early to mid-eighties onward.
I'm guessing that Camillus didn't actually do the scrimshaw etching, as the 1984 catalog notes that these simulated ivory scales are "suitable for stamping". So perhaps a gift shop owner had a vendor stamp the sailing motif on the handles for him? An oddity is that the scrimshaw is on the pile side, not the mark side. Is this an obvious "Oops!" or does commercial scrimshaw sometimes appear on the back handle? (I will say that because of the small size of the knife, the sailing ship and lighthouse look much better in person than they do in the enlarged picture in this post.)
Does anyone else have this knife with the same scrimshaw scene?
I would be interested in seeing any Camillus #24 Jacks that anyone has in their collection.