Most produced American pocket knife?

Whatever is cheapest, I would imagine. Men of all professions and a fair amount of boys carried the barlow pattern, through the 1950's I would imagine. Maybe a hundred to a hundred and fifty years of consistent sales? It would be nice if the trapper, 110 or stockman were the top pattern out there, but I think the barlow pattern takes the cake.
 
leghog said:
Regarding a model/pattern made by a single American manufacturer, can any one beat Camillus with their the military contracts with civilian off-shoot sales? Apparently Camillus made 12,000,000 MIL K818s and 10,000,000 electrician knives.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...camp-knives-were-made?p=12898680#post12898680

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...millus-TL-29-For-Tom-Williams-moderator-et-al

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I'd have to go with the Camillus scout knife. If the above is correct, the statement from Tom Williams says it is only counting since 1949. Well what about the WW2 era production of Camillus? I'm sure that Camillus made more knives for servicemen in WW2 than any other two knife companies. Add that to the 1949 and up figures and you have a cutlery giant. And remember, Camillus was also makiing knives under contract for other companies.

I'd be willing to bet that if you took in the production numbers from both WW2, Korea, and Vietnam, there would be a mountain of scout and TL-29's that would dwarf any other contenders. I know from my own service, that the MLK was like lollypops at the doctors office.

Carl.
 
My guess... and that's all it is, a guess... Is the trapper. Not talking about a single pattern made by just one maker... but instead one pattern made by various U.S. makers.
 
I just reported the info found on a simple search for the 110 to show actual numbers of the guesses made on them earlier in the thread. The OP was talking about a smaller and different type knife. I agree with Jackknifes common sense analysis. With all those knives out there you would think more would be laying around ? 300
 
Thanks! I would think Buck would have access to records on the 110, while Camillus and Schrade records were lost when they closed the factories. Perhaps I should post on the Buck forum as well.
 
If anyone has a lot of back issues of Knife World magazine, they had an article many years ago about Camillus. It was titled "Camillus, Contract King." It was about the heyday of the Camillus factory, and how it was such a giant that they made knives under contract for just about every one who made knives. They had some numbers in the article and while I don't recall the exact amounts, it was staggering how many knives Camillus turned out for other knife companies as well as the U.S. military and other militaries. This in addition to the knives they made under their own label.

I don't know if any knife company before or since, has come close to those production figures, except Victorinox.

Carl.
 
Bartleby said:
Thanks! I would think Buck would have access to records on the 110, while Camillus and Schrade records were lost when they closed the factories. Perhaps I should post on the Buck forum as well.
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Apparently Camillus records were not lost.
 
jackknife said:
If anyone has a lot of back issues of Knife World magazine, they had an article many years ago about Camillus. It was titled "Camillus, Contract King." It was about the heyday of the Camillus factory, and how it was such a giant that they made knives under contract for just about every one who made knives. They had some numbers in the article and while I don't recall the exact amounts, it was staggering how many knives Camillus turned out for other knife companies as well as the U.S. military and other militaries. This in addition to the knives they made under their own label.

I don't know if any knife company before or since, has come close to those production figures, except Victorinox.

Carl.
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No doubt, Camillus is the Big Daddy when it come to numbers. They had a Very Long run and Very High production!
 
I don't think I've met many people down here that didn't have a Case Trapper.
The 54 has been made since the 20's.

My father passed in 1989, and this one was his from the XX era.



Some stag Trappers. I sold most of these recently.

 
300Bucks said:
I would say that the OP was considering a smaller knife, although the 110 can easily be carried in the pocket. Having gone over "15 Million" produced a short while back, 110s not dollars, it just keeps on going and going. ( That was 15 not 1.5 ) The 301 Stockman is still back in the dust. 300
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I wonder what the number would be if you added all the clones from Schrade, Case, Puma, Browning, RR, Taylor etc. and Brand named lockbacks. I have a Buck 110 clone with Tasco stamped on it. It is a dead ringer for my 110.

Tom
 
Double Ott said:
I wonder what the number would be if you added all the clones from Schrade, Case, Puma, Browning, RR, Taylor etc. and Brand named lockbacks. I have a Buck 110 clone with Tasco stamped on it. It is a dead ringer for my 110.

Tom
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Wow, if you took all the Buck 110 clones, it very well may have been THE most coppied and carried knife of the 1970's. I can recall a time when if someone took out a knife, it was some sort of heavy brass frame Buck clone from Japan, Asia, or even Pakistan. It could be called the knife of the 70's.

Carl.
 
jackknife said:
Wow, if you took all the Buck 110 clones, it very well may have been THE most coppied and carried knife of the 1970's. I can recall a time when if someone took out a knife, it was some sort of heavy brass frame Buck clone from Japan, Asia, or even Pakistan. It could be called the knife of the 70's.

Carl.
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If we were to talk copies and clones the scout/camp pattern would likely win. Who DIDN'T make at least one model?
 
While not objective, it seems like everyone in this neck of the woods carries, a 3254, or 3207 Case. Yellow Delrin is everywhere here. It's staggering. The Trapper is even carried by cowboy/rancher types here. I'm not a cowboy, or rancher, but my friends that are, seem to overlook the stockman.
 
The trapper pattern. The TL29 electricians knive was a Air Force standard issue to jet engine techs and I'm just guessin that the USAF electricians might have gotten one or two of the TL29:D
 
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I've read that Schrade's most popular model of all time was the 34OT, which was produced continuously from 1964 until the factory closed 2004. I'll try to find some production numbers... Some Old Timer annual production numbers have been posted before in the Schrade collectors forum.

I doubt though that the 34OT can match the reported figures for the Camillus military models posted above.
 
Seeing the prices on some of the demo knives at gun shows, knife shows and flea markets, you'd think they were made of gold! All the collectors out there seem to like them, I had one for awhile.
 
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