Model 47 ?'s

[6.0stroker]

I picked up a 2 blade senator pen knife 3line tang stamp Camillus underlined 47 on back of main 2 3/4 OAL main sabre 1 15/16, pen 1 5/16 Black delrin scales (I think) in good shape and cannot find the thing in any of the posted cat.s any ideas? I think based on tang stamps 60-76 any more narrowing down greatly appreciated as well as some value estimates appreciated. I will post pics hopfully tomorrow.

 

[CAMCO]

Can you post a photo of the model number? "47" does not sound familiar.

Tom Williams

 

[6.0stroker]

Tom the bottom pic has the model number 47 (I think?) Under 10x loupe it is defintley 47,double click image to enlarge, I didn't want to clean too much on it? I know I could find nothing in the camillus catalogs etc. the #stamp is deep and well defined, unlike the maker stamp on other side not sure w/ all the words haveing to fit on small blade tang if that is the reason?

 

[CAMCO]

I saw Tom Liggett at the auction on Saturday and we discussed this knife. Tom thought that this may not be a Camillus knife. I could not see an enlargement of the Camillus stamping in your photos. I could see the model number "47". Camillus did make a model #47, but it was the "Longhorn" single blade lok-back knife. Tom also commented that the heads on the pins appeared larger than what he remembers.

Tom Williams

(Tom Liggett is a former Camillus employee with 38 years. His last job was as a knife repairman and he is very familiar with Camillus knife construction.)