Let's see your Scout/Camp knives

Really appreciate it. I would have guessed it older. But it makes sense. As BSA knives have different options during the same years. Like the rosewood, which is probably my favorite.
She’ll be happy just to know a little more about them as I am now.
Once again thank you kindly. Maybe I’ll post some pics of some of my BSA knives. I have quite a few non bsa camp knives as well.
Great forum. Thanks
 
Here’s an old Camillus I haven’t had that long. Needs some minor cleaning. My understanding from the stamp maybe 1930-1940s?
I don’t know but have been told the USA and age could possibly been military issue?
Regardless. I like it anyway.
 

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"Be Prepared" on shield is upside down to show obviously that it's a 1985 repro of the 1911 bone-handled knife. A nice souvenir of the 75 annivarsary of the BSA version of Boy Scouting, ended in 2019 with the shift to co-ed Scouts BSA.
 
Thomas Linton said:
"Be Prepared" on shield is upside down to show obviously that it's a 1985 repro of the 1911 bone-handled knife. A nice souvenir of the 75 annivarsary of the BSA version of Boy Scouting, ended in 2019 with the shift to co-ed Scouts BSA.
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Good points Thomas Linton Thomas Linton , even if obvious :D

The thing is though, it does nothing to diminish the quality, workmanship put into it, nor its high functionality as a working tribute to not only the BSA, but the cutlers of The New York Knife Company.
This knife was made with the highest regard for all of that and the quality shows. No blade rub (any marks you think you see, is lighting and/or patina), wobble, play or gaps anywhere.

Unless you handmade the knife in your pocket or on your belt with an original thought in mind, the knife presently in your possession is a reproduction and "souvenir" of a likely long ago established pattern.
Does that make it any less useful or perhaps even less cherished and admired?

A bargain at $39.50, a steal at $19.97 for a brand new almost 40yr old low serial numbered (17 of 20k) faithfully rendered, authentic reproduction, commemorative knife. I'm okay with it.

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NYKC was a TOP maker. I said the replica it was a great souvenir, and I treasure mine, but I am lucky enough to have the real deal.
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This was the prior model BSA thought the Scouts would want because it was "like dad's" (BSA, the bureaucracy, has always had a disconnect from the Scouts):
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Ebony scales.
 
"Be Prepared" is upside down ;) LOL ... Nice one !!!
Both in remarkable shape for their age ... amazing
I prefer to think of my '85 BSA knife as a commemorative rather than a souvenir. After all, it commemorates something
Maybe it's just semantics but well, I didn't get it at a gas station or gift shop, nor were they ever sold there that I know of
 
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NYKC was a TOP maker. I said the replica it was a great souvenir, and I treasure mine, but I am lucky enough to have the real deal.
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Seeing as the reproductions were made in 1985, around 50 years after NYKC shut down and Imperial bought all the NYKC brands, intellectual properties, etc. at the bankruptcy auction, who made the reproductions for the BSA? Was it Imperial Schrade, since they owned the NYKC brand and tang stamp?
 
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Seeing as the reproductions were made in 1985, around 50 years after NYKC shut down and Imperial bought all the NYKC brands, intellectual properties, etc. at the bankruptcy auction, who made the reproductions for the BSA? Was it Imperial Schrade, since they owned the NYKC brand and tang stamp?
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The paperwork in the photo says Schrade.

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"SOUVENIR" FROM THE FRENCH "TO REMEMBER" I was a Boy Scout or Scouter for 54 years. To my amazement, I outlasted Boy Scouts. Lots of good memories.

New York Knife Company per N.Y. State Museum

"After it lost the monopoly on the production of the Boy Scout knives [1923], the New York Knife Company could no longer compete successfully with the more modern knife producing factories.

A notation on the 1924 Sanborn Insurance Map states the factory was not in operation, and the only employees were two night watchmen, indicating the factory may have had to shut down for short periods of time and had to temporarily lay off its workers.

The condition of the company continued to worsen, especially after the 1929 stock market crash. The New York Knife Company factory continued to operate for parts of two more years before it was finally forced to shut down its operation for good in 1931."
 
Model 1996. 1949-1955.

Model 1996 - Plastic sheild was 1955-1958.

Model 1996 - Plastic shield but short screwdriver, was 1958-1962.

BSA was not helpful with new model numbers for new models of gear and often published ads with drastically incorrect illustrations - one example leading to the 1985 commemorative with the printing on the shield ("Be Prepared") upside down, as shown in the 2nd Edition Boy scout Handbook. (The Handbook "edition" was often signifiantly rewritten but BSA only distinguished them as "printings" instead of new editions, which they were.) BSA had very little interest in the past. Money was rasied for salaries in the present and future. :(
 
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