My knife????

[Perfessr]

I have this knife that has been in my family and I would like to know what model # and when it might have been made????

 

[Guyon]

Nice fixed blade.

I don't know. If no one here can help, try the Bernard Levine Knife Collecting and Identification forum here at BF.

I will say this. If that knife were mine, I would take some kind of measures (WD-40, CLP, Flitz, etc.) to stop the corrosion. Otherwise, you're going to have a lump of rust eventually.

 

[Perfessr]

It normally is kept quite clean and rust free but I just found it in my hunting bag yesterday and had not cleaned it from the fall hunt.

 

[CAMCO]

Your Camillus knife is a model #5679 fixed blade knife that was made for the Army Air Force during WWII. This knife features a 5" glazed blade, brass guard, aluminum butt and leather handle. 75,000 were produced.

Tom Williams
Camillus Cutlery Co.

 

[Nick Nail]

What is a "glazed blade"? I've never heard that term before.

 

[Perfessr]

Thanks for the info I have always wondered about this knife I will use it with more pride. I did carry it while I was in the Marines 75-79 non combat but it worked very well for me.