Camillus no 9

[silenthunterstudios]

Last month, I found an old Camillus 23 jack, with cream yellow scales (Orr company), and saw a Camillus single blade barlow in the same case. It was beat to hell and back, and wiggled like a happy puppy. Well, I really liked my Queen Dan Burke large barlow, and I was going to take this old knife home with me, but decided against it.

Not my pic, but similar

At the same farmers market/antique mall yesterday, it was still there. I had gotten an old two blade Vess jack repaired, and I figured I'd contact the man who worked his magic, see if he could do it to this knife. When opening and closing the blade, you can tell that it was made with a half stop, but it is barely noticeable. The bolsters are neat, the scales regular old saw cut delrin. $17 bucks including tax wasn't too hard on the wallet. Looking for some pics on Google, I see that it was called the "daddy" barlow. Does anyone have any info on this pattern? Years, steel?

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

If you can take/find a pic of the tang stamp on that knife (the Camillus mark), it'd help narrow down the age of it. Their tang stamps varied quite a bit, over a very long time. Might also help in figuring out what the steel is. If it's stainless anyway, I know Camillus used 440A quite a lot. It's not bad stuff; takes a very fine edge and is easy to maintain & sharpen up.

 

[Invoice]

Nice knife. I have couple of them and don't know much about them. Does the tang stamp look like this?

 

[Dan K]

As far I can remember they were all, like mine, made of 1095 steel.
Dan