Let's see your Scout/Camp knives

Challenge Cutlery Co. Scout knife.
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Thanks for posting this thread, guys!! I searched, but couldn't find it!! :rolleyes:
Nice Scouts, gents!!:thumbsup:
Here are a couple more;
A Kent, made by Kastor Bros before 1901 and later by Camillus when the Kastors bought it, for F.W.Woolworth's (founded in 1879 in Utica, NY).
This knife was made after 1910 when the BSA was founded!!
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Union Cut Co, Olean N.Y.
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A most practical pattern for EDC, in my opinion.
I only have six.

First up a WESTERN U.S.A "Demo Knife" the Army Reserves gave me when I joined in 1975. They didn't want it back when I was given an an unwanted by me forever medical discharge the day after I reported for Basic Training.
Unlike the Camillus the Western has no date code or model number.
It is joined by a recenty manufactured Marbles version.
From what I can see, the only differences are: The Tang Stamps. The Marbles is 1/8 inch shorter closed. The Marbles has match strike pulls on all the blades, and no "CAN OPENER" on that blade.
I think I read in this thread that the Marbles is the new Mil Spec variation. If so, the Generals must have finally decided that receuits are smart enough to know what a can opener looks like. Long caplifter and Screwdriver blade on both. 440A blades on both.
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An Imperial Prov. R.I., from I'm guessing the 1940's or 50's, due to no "USA" on the tang stamp, and the periods after "Prov." and in "R.I."
No punch in this one. It has a pen blade, instead. Has a long Capliftfer/Screwdriver blade.
Carbon Steel blades.

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Ulster Official BSA with semi-rare(?) White Delrin covers.
I'm not 100% sure, but I think that makes it a Scout Master's variation? Has a short caplifter-Screwdriver blade.
All the blades are carbon steel.
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Boker Magnum
Dark Rosewood covers. Short Caplifter/Screwdriver.
The ads, listings, and packaging, allege 440C blades, but the main blade is etched "440A"
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Still a nice knife, either way.

Last but certainly not least, a Rough Rider RR533, with Amber Jigged Bone Covers.
Long screwdriver/Caplifter. This is my only example with the old style pre-war canopener. I'm not sure, but the canopener might be capable of double duty as an eraser blade. I don't have any parchment or rag paper to test this suspicion, however. 440A blades.
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Almost forgot ... all the blades with the exception of the Boker caplifter/screwdriver are a "5" pull. The one Boker blade is a "6" ... maybe "7". I'm going to try making the nail nick a little deeper ... see if that helps. It did on the RR. :)
 
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For 1980, the bureaucrats at BSA HQ in southern Texas decided a white knife would be less easily lost (forgetting entirely that snow falls elsewhere in the U.S.), so all the official BSA knives that year had white handle scales.

afishhunter, You have the standard issue "Utility" model, No. 1996. As many have yellowed over the decades, yours is an expecially nice example. Not to mention what they commonly look like when heavily used by pre-high schoolers.

He is the one from that year commonly called the "Scoutmaster's" model, although BSA called it the "Deluxe" model":
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Here is another official BSA knife from the White Year:
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And the BSA white Cub Knife:
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And the BSA pseudo "Whittler" knife:
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"Scout" knives all, in a sense"
 
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Thomas Linton said:
For 1980, the bureaucrats at BSA HQ in southern Texas decided a white knife would be less easily lost (forgetting entirely that snow falls elsewhere in the U.S.), so all the official BSA knives that year had white handle scales.
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Wasn't Ulster a memory in 1980?
I thought Schrade shut down Ulster in favor of Old Timer by 1969/1970.

Now I'm (more) confused. I thought mine dated between 58/60 to 67/69 from the tang stamp, round BSA Shield, and no "Ulster Old Timer" badging.
 
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The Cub is a nice size. I still haven't found one in good shape just like the one I traded away, but between this Camillus and my gravel road Imperial, I'm not suffering.
Also an Ulster, which added the Phillips to the Scout panoply without losing the flat, and a Kutmaster Grand Sachem.
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