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While at a gunshow earlier this year, I picked up this 25 year old Camillus NY made (Kabar style) USMC commemorative knife (commemorating the 50th anniversary of WW2). The gentleman that sold it to me explained that he had been a Camillus knife dealer when Camillus was still operating. He was offered a few of these knives with the explaination that the blades had their false edges sharpened, but that the commemorative series these knives were going to be a part of, were decided to not have the sharpened false edges. So, with some of these blades having been sharpened at the false edge area, they were assembled, but sold seperately from the cataloged commemorative series. These differ from the series by not only having the top, usually false edge, sharpened, but also by having a standard phosphated (parkerized) guard and pommel, rather than being gold plated as with the standard offered commemorative series specimens. Anyhow, I have no clue how many of these were assembled using these commemorative series blades, but I imagine them to be somewhat of an oddity (my being into collecting knives and such, I am okay with that). Anyhow, just sharing here, and I welcome any thoughts you may have about such specimens 👍☺
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