Interest keen in Cutlery's auction

AG, off subject, but I ordered some field tweezers a few months ago for myself and a soldier in Iraq, and they are great. Last night at work, I had tried all evening, with ordinary tweezers, to remove a metal splinter, when I got home I grabbed them, and removed it with no problem. They are fantastic.
I plan on a couple more for my different outting packs.
 
glad you like them. I think they are almost the perfect mail order item, they don't cost much and everybody loves them.
 
Well, the crap knives from the auction that were probably over paid for are making their appearance on ebay. Bid and buy with caution! Half finished stuff, knives sent in for repair, factory seconds, ect. Here is a real winner:
Ebay item 270172045407
 
Phil,
Most of the knives sold at the auction were seconds. I told the auctioneers that the knives were either unfinished or had flaws, but they were not interested. They described a late example of a Mark 2 knife (Model #5684) as having been made during WWII and that they sell for over $200.00 on Ebay. The knife was actually made recently. Buyer Beware!

Tom Williams
 
At times like this I wish I had better photography skills. :o
 

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Very nice Phil! And what an memento! It isn't the same picture illustrated in Lief's 1944 book. The Lief illustration may well be the photograph the oil painting was made from though. Congratulations again! I appreciate your showing it to us here. Maybe some day you can have a studio do a pro-shot of it with the light tent, etc.. Your photography is still better than mine, no doubt.

Michael
 
I can't find the post just now, but it was a Camillus employee who painted it.
 
Participated in this auction Darrel Ralph and Blackie Collins? What is the intellectual property they have purchased there?

Who's purchased a brand Camco?

And one more question to Tom Williams: Where today these tang stamps? ;)
 
Vit 213 - welcome to BF!

To partially answer your question, I think Acme-United Corp. owns the rights to the Camillus name, and I think the Camco name went with that as well.

Others can chime in and clarify other details for you.

~Chris
 
ACME bought all the trademarks that included Camillus, CAMCO, Silver Sword, American Wildlife, Dura-Lens, Western, O.V.B., CAM-LOK (my mother originated this trademark), SWORD BRAND, etc., etc., etc. I don't recall the exact price that ACME paid, but it was somewhere around $160,000-$180,000 for all the trademarks. There was a three ring binder in the main office that had all the registered trademark records going back to the very early days of Camillus. There was also some of Imperial/Schrade's trademark records at Camillus. I remember seeing the registrations for ULSTER, Kingston, etc.

Tom Williams
 
Vit 213

I purchased some of the tang stamps at the first auction in September, 2007. Bear & Sons Cutlery acquired most of them. I bought them along with another collector who has his share safely stored in his private collection. I removed as many stamps as my truck and trailer could carry (along with the other items that I bought at the auction) on the first day. The next day that I returned to pick up the remainder I learned that some were stolen. Fortunately these were mostly the number stamps and I believe that were taken for their scrap value.
I have seen the postings on BF concerning the use of the Buck tooling and tang stamps and I believe these claims are without merit.

Tom Williams
 
Unreal how the half-finished junk and seconds are still clogging up ebay. There is so much of the stuff that I think we will be seeing it all in circulation for many, many years. Well, not many many years, more like forever.
 
The half finished Schrade stuff is still flowing strong too. Some is still being assembled too. Makes for some interesting Ebay stories. :p
 
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Dear Tom. You probably did not notice smile in my question, and therefore reacted to it too seriously. I was expecting an answer like "They are gathering dust in my attic", or "Every day I blow away the dust from them" :)
However, your story about the stolen tang stamp is certainly an interesting episode in the history of this auction. Thank you.
 
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