Can anyone tell me the purpose of this knife?

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My son in law had a few older knives he's had for a while, and one of them he showed me was this one:

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It's a small key-fob style knife, with two blades shown opened in the picture above. The only markings are on each tang: "USA". I'm not looking to id a manufacturer or determine value, but wonder what the intended purpose for the knife might have been. I thought my best bet for a simple answer might be here, rather in Mr. Levine's forum. If I've made the wrong call on that, please remove my post and I'll repost in his forum.

Hopefully one of you fellows might know this one right off the top, I certainly would appreciate any help figuring out what this little guy might have been made for. Thanks :)
 
I'm no expert, buT I'm thinking it could be used as like a medallion. Kinda like a neck knife, or a money clip knife. I could be way, way off.
 
It's just a small advertising knife, intended for a keychain. I've seen some that have a nail file on one blade as well.
 
Thanks for the reply, that's exactly what it looks like to me. When the blades are closed it looks just like a medallion, a novelty knife of some sort.
With the unusual blade shape, I was curious what they could be used for. Couldn't clean your nails with it very well, odd shape for a letter opener. Just one of those unusual things that I hoped someone here might know.
 
Thank you to you as well, Jack. You replied while I was typing to MattyLav. I didn't think it was more than a little club-knife, with the hole to attach it to a keychain. It's something outside my experience, looked a little odd to me.
 
yablanowitz said:
It's just a small advertising knife, intended for a keychain. I've seen some that have a nail file on one blade as well.
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This.
Like Jack, I also have seen the ones with a nail file and a blade.
 
Thank you to everyone for the help. I thought upon initial examination it was a novelty knife, but was just wondering if the blades served any specialized purpose. It seems as though their shape was probably cosmetic, and nothing more. I appreciate your help :)
 
Older Lions Club International watch fob knife or just on a chain at meetings (after wrist watch era). And the cigar post is likely true of the past. Our lunch is smokeless and cell phoneless. Our club took on running the local rodeo as a fund raiser a dozen years ago. (Beats selling Christmas trees) It takes everyones 3 day efforts to make it go. After all is paid up we support the boys and girls organizations and other community efforts to the tune of 4 to 5 K per year. Not bad for a 9,000 population county seat and a weeks efforts. of a couple dozen volunteers (ladies can be members also).

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I have a thing for ad knives. I've seen these with nail files, too. I have one somewhere...I think it has two blades, no nail-file. A ton of these were made for various organizations and stores as gimme knives. Used to be a cheap, but usable knife was a pretty standard 'gift' from clubs and other organizations. Coke. Beer. Gas stations. Etc.
 
I've got one lying around here somewhere that has scissors in addition to the blade and file. It's odd the way they had to curve the scissors to fit the round profile. Looks a little like a lobster claw or somesuch.
 
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