Camillus Festus - A feast of great old knives

[KnifeHead]

Well...not quite a feast yet but maybe some others will post their grand old Camillus knives. I will post more later.

This one is a 4 line(so called because of 4 lines of text on the tang...U.S.A not shown in the image) Camillus Easy Opener Regular Jack in Rogers Bone. There are some interesting things about this particular knife such as the small pins are hammered but the center pin has a spun head. Also, the back side of the master blade has a step in the grind. Could this have been a slip up in assembly by putting together a knife with a mis-ground blade? We'll never know but this knife looks as if it has hardly been used and may be due to it being a factory cull.

The bone on this knife is a classic example of Rogers and shows no sign of pocket wear. This knife was probably made in the 30's.

 

[flylock]

I had always heard that, that particular pattern was made for the troops in WW2 either given or issued to soldiers or made widely available in px's. You see a lot of those around but they are usually worn out. Pal and Imperial made a lot of them as well.

 

[Blues]

Nice example of a classic old pattern.

 

[waynorth]

Kerry, you knew I'd be here sooner or later! May as well be sooner;
Here's a Camillus Hawk, fresh off the Bay. Mighty full blade, hmmmm?

And here's a nice sailor's knife, jigged wood, from a salesman's roll;

 

[IVANKERLEY]

beautiful knife, i have what you could call the Ugly Junkyard Dog, cousin to to your knife sans the bail, Mine is a two blade easy opener with black jigged cell scales, long nail pull #33 i believe. All i'll say 'bout mine is bench grinders are not good:grumpy: didnt see it in the photos. But the knife is tight and is an excellent user, its a keeper
Beautiful piece, i'll trade ya
ivan

 

[smiling-knife]

Beautiful old knives Kerry and Charlie. Here is one that I have.... US Army knife from cWWII.

 

[waynorth]

Nice example, s-k!
Keep them coming everyone. I KNOW you've all owned a Camillus at some time in your life ;-)

 

[KnifeHead]

....and fixed blades too, surely there are a few of those out there as well.

 

[flylock]

Here's an wooden handled jack, 3-1/4" closed. I know I've got a couple more cammies around here though.

 

[smiling-knife]

This is another one from circa WWII. I think it is a rope or raft knife.

 

[KnifeHead]

Here is a 3.5" 4 line Camillus Trapper with an unusual spay blade and a Reese Bose ancestor on the left. I'll see if I can get some closeups of the old knife later.

 

[IVANKERLEY]

These are my camillus knives to date, all well loved before they ever got to me 'cept for the big lockback found that new in package on amazon of all places just got it today
photos courtesy of my 11 year old son Liam
ivan

 

[sunnyd]

Hey there Kerry nice thread, great knives fellas. Here is one marked Kutmaster that looks like Kerry's kiss'n cousin.. Someone help me out here, didn't Camillus have a hand in producing Kutmasters for a time?.

An older small ee w/tipped bolsters & celluloid from the 40's I believe..

A vintage little two blade Camco produced by Camillus..

One similar version to smiling-knife's WWII knife..

One from the 1970's American Wildlife Series

Ive got more but due to the forum's current state(barely functioning for me at this time) it'll have to wait till a little later.

 

[IVANKERLEY]

kutmaster was produced by Utica but i havent heard of camillus producing kutmaster knives, then again i dont know much still new
ivan

 

[KnifeHead]

Here a couple more shots of the trapper

 

[KnifeHead]

Two of the same pattern. One US Army issue.

Camillus Barlows. Tip Top was another brand name of Camillus

 

[KnifeHead]

Here's a couple of nice Camillus Jacks.

A Camillus fish knife and another one like SK posted, except the blade is a bit fuller and it has a swedge.

 

[waynorth]

Nice bunch! I've never seen one of those "rope" knives with a swedge!

 

[kamagong]

Not that old, but here are my Camillus (and Camillus-made) knives. As you can see there is more than a passing resemblance between the Cold Steel knife and the Camillus Roughcut Stockman. Even more interesting is the small Camillus knife in black delrin. The handle material is the same as that on the CS knife, and I guess Camillus ran out of blades because the clip blade is stamped "Carbon V."

 

[TLARbb]

I only have one old Camillus. An easy open jack that I picked up to try out the pattern in light of the upcoming forum knife. I like it a lot, but it has a fair amount of side play in the master blade and the backspring sits somewhat low when open indicating wear in that area as well. This is confirmed by having a light pull. It has served its purpose. My only photo:

Ed J