Camillus Space Age boy's knife

I own one and mine it is in very good shape...I would say almost mint....
Need time to dig from cigar box in storage....pictures later when I have a chance.
 
Very nice screened porch! I have been looking and looking for this dick tracy Camco for many years and had no luck finding one without cracked handles. Scarce as hen's teeth.
 
I had no idea they existed. The other side of mine is in better shape, but still cracked. (And without the clue detector, I have to bring along my big Vic SAK with the magnifier when I go crime-fighting.)
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The siren on the "rocket" knives wasn't actually designed to be mouth blown to operate although they do work that way. You whirled the knife around in the air to operate the siren, the spot where the lanyard attaches keeps the siren to the wind when you whirl it around. Salt Point is a town near Binghamton, N.Y. and around 15 years ago there was an auction there of items from the Rail City tourist attraction where they sold many of these knives, and many of them were still on complete display cards. They are pretty cool mementos of that era of early rocketry and when every boy carried a knife.
 
Cool knife there Codger!, I remember Buck Rogers on TV! Its was THE bomb in those days!

I remember Dan putting up the Camco Rocket ship knives before sometime ago!
 
Has anyone ever started a thread on novelty knives and advertisers, I know when it comes to smaller knives, (under 2") the novelty/advertising knives out number the the ones that aren't.

I'm sure a lot of you folks my age are the same, I can't remember ever going out with my Old Man anywhere that I wasn't asking for a little bowie, little pen or jack knife that didn't have something hot stamped into the plastic scales to remember where I got it.

I used to have about a dozen or so of those little bowie knives that came with the little leather belt sheath most were Imperial or Colonial stamped USA.

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There was a period of time from the late 1930s thru the 1960s that advertisers and shells were ruling the country. Probably because of the cheap prices and easy to find.
 
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