Hockeydad77 wrote:Hello- can anyone help me “date” my Camco pocket knife?
First let me say, welcome to AAPK!
My previous post was made from my cell phone and I can't see all the things I can see from my computer.
I was able to find your knife listed in the 1973 Camillus catalog, so we know that it is from that era, which is what I suspected. I don't know when that knife was made, certainly not before 1960 with the Delrin handles, and I don't know when the pattern was discontinued.
I do see that your handles are held on by brass pins which tells me it is an earlier Delrin handled knife because later on, probably sometime in the 70s, although I am not sure as to the timing, and Camillus stopped using brass pins at the ends to attach the handles and instead went to "post" which was molded into the back of the handle and fit through holes in the liner. The excess ends of the posts were then melted off on the inside of a liner so it did not interfere with the operation of the blades. This process held the handles on more securely than the pins did. It was a very effective method of attaching handles.
Unless someone can find listings in the catalogs to say when the pattern was first introduced and when it was discontinued we won't know much more than what we do now. I find it unlikely that we would find enough listings of Camco patterns in the Camillus catalogs that we would be able to dated to precise period of a few years. Most Camillus knives are dated in a date range because they don't make changes in the knife every year that would make it distinct from other years.
Based on the information available at this point I would say your knife was probably made between about 1960 and about 1975. I hope this is helpful, understand this is a semi-educated guess to measure and based on very limited facts and research.
Doc B – I have a Camp Glo knife if you want it. It would not be expensive because the material the handles are made of was not dimensionally stable, it tended to shrink and warp. Not as bad as some handle materials but it is still far from a pristine knife. If you're interested let me know and I will dig it up and send you some pictures.
I know Ken ,sadly most of us was brought up with carrying a pocket knife being a normal thing 
I need a nap. 
