All About Pocket Knives

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 20, 2020 10:16 pm This arrived today.

Awesome Skip. How many of the Anniversary knives do you have now?

I just fished this one out of the bay last night.
A model 91 Camillus Congress......
It even has my name on it!!!
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I think a good clean up and this one will be pretty nice.

It was meant for you Mike. I like that pattern and that knife.

Meridian_Mike wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 12:17 pm I just fished this one out of the bay last night.
A model 91 Camillus Congress......

Good looking 91 Mike. It should clean up nicely.

Thanks y'all...

...mike, is it 4 line stamped???............... .............

carrmillus wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:03 pm ...mike, is it 4 line stamped???............... .............

I'm not exactly sure....
My first impression is that this is an older knife.
I see that it looks like (maybe) a long line under the "CAMILLUS" name. I haven't really tried to figure it out beyond that since I don't have it in hand yet.


1960-1976 maybe??

Meridian_Mike wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:27 pm

carrmillus wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 3:03 pm ...mike, is it 4 line stamped???............... .............

I see that it looks like (maybe) a long line under the "CAMILLUS" name.

1960-1976 maybe??

Bingo. Long line.

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These arrived this morning. A CAMILLUS 14, 2 blade pocket knife. It is in NEAR MINT condition. It came in the box pictured below. The seller thought that the CAMILLUS 14 went with this box. The box is for a CAMILLUS 165 and it has the steel sharpening rod. It doesn't have the sharpening instructions on the bottom panel. But what it does have, and it wasn't pictured by the seller, is "SEASONS GREETINGS" on each side panel. It also has "To" and "From" on the bottom panel. I took some pictures and here they are.

That right there is a couple of real beauties Skip!!

Meridian_Mike wrote: ↑Tue Jun 23, 2020 5:42 pm That right there is a couple of real beauties Skip!!

Thank you Mike. Now to get a 165 for the box. It shouldn't be too difficult.

I just bought this "knife" for best offer. It's a CAMILLUS, single blade, two tools, "Sunshine Biscuits" (shield) pocket knife. Besides the blade, the tools are supposed to be a cap lifter/bottle opener and a can opener. It looks like it's a 3 or 4 line tang stamp. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. But when it arrives, it'll get a helluva cleaning. Per the seller, the tools are rusted shut. Here it is, not my pictures.

Celluloid killed him .

i like it. i would re handle it, after i got all the rust off. and freed the stuck blades.

Vit_213 wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 1:05 am Celluloid killed him .

Yes Vit_213 and it looks like it was a slow, painful death.

richard wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 2:16 am i like it. i would re handle it, after i got all the rust off. and freed the stuck blades.

Thank you Richard. A re-handle job is in this knife's future. Along with rust removal and freeing up the tools.

Picked up this 68 Stockman with a punch, I think it dates from the 60's to early 70's, wonder when Camillus stopped using the spiral punch if ever.

......now, there's one I do not have!!!................ .....................

carrmillus wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 8:47 pm ......now, there's one I do not have!!!................ .....................

Thanks, I looked for other examples and they do not appear to be all that common. I did find one or two earlier examples with bone handles.

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:20 am I just bought this "knife" for best offer. It's a CAMILLUS, single blade, two tools, "Sunshine Biscuits" (shield) pocket knife. Besides the blade, the tools are supposed to be a cap lifter/bottle opener and a can opener. It looks like it's a 3 or 4 line tang stamp. I don't know what I'm going to do with it. But when it arrives, it'll get a helluva cleaning.

Now THAT right there is gonna be a NICE one when it is all cleaned up and a new set of covers installed.
Good catch Skip!

JohnR wrote: ↑Sun Jun 28, 2020 3:36 pm Picked up this 68 Stockman with a punch, I think it dates from the 60's to early 70's, wonder when Camillus stopped using the spiral punch if ever.

I like those spiral punches... I have no idea when they stopped making them. I sure do hate it that they stopped!

Meridian_Mike wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 1:10 pm

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Sat Jun 27, 2020 12:20 am I just bought this "knife".....

Now THAT right there is gonna be a NICE one when it is all cleaned up and a new set of covers installed.
Good catch Skip!

Thank you Mike. I don't have the knowledge to restore this, or any other knife. I may be able to take it apart. I may be able to remove SOME of the rust. But to clean everything, put new handles on it and reassemble the knife, the biggest virtue that I'm lacking is PATIENCE. I have absolutely none. What will happen, after much swearing and throwing of temper tantrums, is that this knife will end up at the bottom of the lake. I may try to have it restored by one of the VERY talented AAPK artisans.

New_Windsor_NY wrote: ↑Mon Jun 29, 2020 6:03 pm What will happen, after much swearing and throwing of temper tantrums, is that this knife will end up at the bottom of the lake.

YIKES.....

Well, "it" arrived today. A CAMILLUS, 4 line, single blade, 2 tool, "Sunshine Biscuits" pocket knife. It doesn't look any better in my hands than it did in the seller's pictures (top of this page). I did manage to get the tools to open and close from being rusted shut. I'm only adding the two pictures for now.
To be continued......maybe.

Pocketed a#14 today

Ok. This is as far as I dare go with this pocket knife and still maintain. Here's the deal. I would like one of the AAPK artisans to put handles on this pocket knife. It's a CAMILLUS, 4 line tang stamp, single blade, 2 tool, "Sunshine Biscuits" pocket knife. Obviously I'll pay for shipping both ways, for any materials and of course, for your time and effort. I'd like to reuse as much of this knife as possible. Handle material can be discussed. If you are interested, PLEASE PM me and ONLY if you're in the lower 48 states. Thank you, Skip.
A couple of the "before" pictures are two posts above this one.