Custom mod or stock: Camillus Tip Top Barlow with ebony covers and red enamel letters

[Atiger]

I bid on this mostly out of curiosity and was quite surprised when I actually won it. I don't recall ever seing a Camillus Tip Top Barlow with ebony covers and red enamel letters on the bolster stamp. Its a solid knife, the blades have snap and the main blade has a 4-line tang stamp and a nail nick which doesn't seem unusual for a later Tip Top based on photos I've seen of similar knives. I suppose it could be a "parts knife" but it seems odd that someone would create a knife that's so different from its predecessors unless they just wanted something a little different as a one-off custom.

Regardless, it's a nice knife and I like it - at the very least I now have something to post on Wooden Wednesday. I just can't find out anything about it and was hoping someone here might shed some light on whether it's a production knife or a mod.

Thanks

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[knarfeng]

This has been here in Traditional pretty close to 24 hours. Let's try the Camillus Collectors subforum and see if they do better by you.

 

[Jody744]

Tip Top.poultry? Big plant in Marietta, GA. They have many plants.

 

[edbeau]

By doing a search, it looks like Tip Top was a brand of Camillus like Camco.

 

[sac troop]

The presence of "TIP TOP" on Camillus barlow knives does predate the founding of the Tip Top Poultry company, (1947).

 

[Amir Fleschwund]

I found a Camillus Tip Top barlow at a flea market a couple of Saturdays ago.
Clip main, pen secondary with bone scales. Also found a #68 Stockman - the one on which the 3rd blade is a leather punch. The snap on the 68 is a little weak, but a good cleaning and oiling helped.

Carrying the Tip Top today- great little knife. Takes a great edge.