"Military Camillus M3" a repro?

[Thomas Linton]

On ebay a knife is being offered as a "Military Camillus M3 Combat Knife" but is has only a single pin attaching the pommel and the sheath is nothing like I ever saw illustrated for M3 - leather as usual but with metal reinforcement near where tip of knife would be and "Camillus" stamped on front. Actually, sheath looks too good. (I know, I know; if it's too good . . . etc.). I am told Camillus made repro's on same dies. True?

 

[Bladeandbarrel]

This is a repro built in the original factory with the original tooling. Not sure if built to original spec or better.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Seller was a good guy and let me retract my bid. Next time . . .

 

[Will Fennell]

Thomas,
Here is a pic of one of the reproductions. Its at this link...

http://www.actiongear.com/cgi-bin/t...ry.ctx=Camillus&backto=/agcatalog/results.tam

...on Brigade Quatermaster's site. We make a run[as an exclusive] of these knives every year for a Army-Navy wholesale distributor, and BRIGADE gets them from the wholesaler.

Kewl knife with alot of history. We only use 1 pin in the butt to help collectors tell the new ones.