Sword Brand question

BigAl62

BigAl62

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I recently purchased two Folding Hunter #26 knives. I guess together these would be two Camilli? (plural of Camillus - 😆)

One has a Sword Brand blade etch and the other doesn’t. I’m a bit new with Camillus so my question is about the Sword Brand. Was Sword Brand a sub-brand or a higher end thing? Or a temporary marketing thing like a limited edition? Or were they a totally separate product line?

Like F-150 XL, XLT, Lariat or more like Ford, Lincoln and Mercury?
 
So I did some interweb searching on this. Here's what I came up with so far if anybody is interested: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?p=760792#p760792

So it sounds like Camillus was the top of the food chain and made Camillus-branded knives. Then they also had a couple of sub brands. To stick with the FOMOCO analogy:

Camillus - Ford (Taurus, Galaxy, F150, Expedition, etc.)
Sword Brand - Lincoln (Continental, Mark IV, Navigator, etc.)
Silver Sword - Mercury (Comet, Cougar, Mountaineer, etc.)

Further to this analogy, Camillus also made Silverados under contract for Chevy. . .

Now most of them look like Civics!

Does this sound about right?
 
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