Wood handled utility knife

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Mountainwind

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This is a pretty bad picture, but it will show the knife I am asking about.
Is this an old knife, or were these made with wood fairly recently?
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Looking at the pictures, I can't see any pins. There is a place on the opposite side of the blades, that might be one, but can't tell for sure.
May have to wait till it arrives.
 
I don't see any pins either. I'm guessing it is probably from the '70's or '80's but somebody might jump in here who knows more than me!:)
 
I don't know about the wood, but it has the longer screwdriver on the end of the bottle opener (about the same length as the awl), which I think was changed to the shorter kind some time after the 80s (not sure exactly when).

I can't tell if the can opener is broken or if it is some kind of older version. The 80's and later models had a hook-like blade on the can opener, the one in the picture has a sheepsfoot-shaped upper claw.
 
OK, just got it in. It has one pin. The openner (and they may all be made this way) is a two piece, with a pin to hold it together, with a straight edge, instead of the hook style as mentioned above.
 
This is just a guess but could it be a re-handled camp knife from the 50's? I have a few of this design with plastic handles.
 
The knife looks like an old #14 pattern with the two piece can-opener. This style can-opener was used in the 1940's and 1950's.

Tom Williams
 
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