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https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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That's a good guess Gary... I would say either Camillus or Kingston. Camillus handled a lot of their later WWII with this cheap black plastic that deteriorates / shrinks frequently and based on the shrinkage I was thinking this is a mid-to-late 1940's Camillus. Either way it is from a good manufacturer, it has really great snap open/close and it's sharp enough I can shave with it... but I won'tI like it, Kevin!Is that a Kingston??
I'd say you definitely qualify, Greg!
Did you buy that knife in 1974, sort of trying to predict your future??
- GT
I turned 16 that summer and my mind was on getting a car, and of course girls. 
Thanks for the info, Kevin; glad you like it!That's a good guess Gary... I would say either Camillus or Kingston. Camillus handled a lot of their later WWII with this cheap black plastic that deteriorates / shrinks frequently and based on the shrinkage I was thinking this is a mid-to-late 1940's Camillus. Either way it is from a good manufacturer, it has really great snap open/close and it's sharp enough I can shave with it... but I won't
And those girls usually lead to grandkids, one way or another!Ha! If I had it in '74 it would be beat up or more than likely lost long ago.
I ended up buying a Rambler (probably AMC by that time?) Ambassador from the USPS: steering wheel on the right, no rear seat. I only had it about 3 weeks before some teen high on drugs and driving his girlfriend's car totaled my "mail car" on the street in front of the apartment I had just moved into in Lafayette, IN. Fortunately, my Dad in Michigan hadn't sold my Barracuda for me yet, and I drove that for a couple more years before borrowing money from Grandma and buying a brand new '76 Toyota Corolla for $3000!
I've been carrying this massive blinged-out Rough Rider canoe this week:
