Identifying old Western pocket knives

[fitzgeae]

What blade markings did the older western pocket knives have? How do you determine the pre-Camillus western pocket knives?

 

[Esav Benyamin]

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[fitzgeae]

thx

 

[rev_jch]

i believe some of the older ones were stamped "western states".