Flea market fun

[Mongo]

Greetings all, last night the family and I went to this all night flea market near us. It is a huge well attended event with stall after stall of mostly junk. I spied a Boy Scout knife in a case and asked to take a look. As I opened the blade, the idiot behind the table said it was a "really old one, from the 40's". It was a Camillus with stainless blades, I commented that it was newer than that. Then he said "it has real jigged bone handles", and I said "No, that is plastic, called Delrin". Then I asked his price, he said $50! I told him "good luck" as I 'd at him. As Bugs Bunny would say... "Whatta Maroon!"

 

[Sword and Shield]

Fifty bucks... maybe for NIB, the earliest Camillus made- which was in 1946. Stainless and delrin should put it square in the late 70s at the earliest. Did it have the Tenderfoot shield?

 

[Will Power]

Anything good there though and at realistic prices?

 

[silenthunterstudios]

I stopped at the Morningstar Farmers Market in York PA, and parked right across from a guy selling military items at the outside flea market. After digging through his piles of WW2 knives sitting in the sun (the ohs and ahs weren't from the good finds ), I asked him about a Camillus demo knife. He pulled one from his pocket and said he would never sell that one, but that he might have some others. He didn't find any, guess I should of left my info with him. Wonder how much he would have wanted for that demo?

 

[camo kid]

sorry to here you guys did'nt get any good finds this week. I love it when people ask big bucks for common knives that can be had for next to nothing most of the time. Today I ended up with an old Schrade, Walden NY TL-29 pattern, two Colonial master barlows, and a Kutmaster, Utica, NY stockman, all un-used for 25$. So keep up the hunt, the finds are out there........ Joe