All About Pocket Knives

...friend of mine just gave me a 1979 sports headquarters, Atlanta, ga. catalog, the prices on Camillus knives is unreal!!!..a #72 whittler-$11.25, a #26 staglon folding hunter-$17.00.......... ..........................

That's alright Tommy. In August of '79 I'd have only been 3 years old so I wouldn't have had the money anyway.

...in aug. 1979 I was 42!!!!...... ...............

carrmillus wrote:...friend of mine just gave me a 1979 sports headquarters, Atlanta, ga. catalog, the prices on Camillus knives is unreal!!!..a #72 whittler-$11.25, a #26 staglon folding hunter-$17.00.......... ..........................

In today's dollars:
$11.25 = $37.32
$17 = $56.40

...I would have thought the prices would be higher than that now!!.......... ............

carrmillus wrote:...friend of mine just gave me a 1979 sports headquarters, Atlanta, ga. catalog, the prices on Camillus knives is unreal!!!..a #72 whittler-$11.25, a #26 staglon folding hunter-$17.00.......... ..........................

http://www.camillusknives.ru/cats/1979- ... -price.pdf

Just about to start my senior year in September.

Those prices were pretty steep.......I wouldn't've paid that much when I could buy a couple 6 packs!!!

The significant aspect is not so much the change in price over time, but the change in the number of work hours required to buy the knife.
Using average wage (i don't know how to find this), how much time was needed in 1979 to earn $11.75 and how much time now in 2016 to earn $37.32 ?
My bet is that you would need to work longer now to buy the #72 Whittler at $37.32 than you needed to work in 1979 to earn the $11.25 to buy the same knife.
kj

kootenay joe wrote:The significant aspect is not so much the change in price over time, but the change in the number of work hours required to buy the knife.
Using average wage (i don't know how to find this), how much time was needed in 1979 to earn $11.75 and how much time now in 2016 to earn $37.32 ?
My bet is that you would need to work longer now to buy the #72 Whittler at $37.32 than you needed to work in 1979 to earn the $11.25 to buy the same knife.
kj

.....good point,kj!!!............. .................

kootenay joe wrote:The significant aspect is not so much the change in price over time, but the change in the number of work hours required to buy the knife.
Using average wage (i don't know how to find this), how much time was needed in 1979 to earn $11.75 and how much time now in 2016 to earn $37.32 ?
My bet is that you would need to work longer now to buy the #72 Whittler at $37.32 than you needed to work in 1979 to earn the $11.25 to buy the same knife.
kj

Gonna take a shot on my memory here......I was working as a dishwasher at the local diner and making $3.65 an hour....I think.

But true, definitely takes more time in todays world, if you're paying cash....as we ALL DID BACK THEN!!!

Class of '73. I can't even begin to tell you how different things are today. (Even 1979 was quite different from the time during the last days of the Vietnam War). Yes, I have a long memory... too long.

I was 24 years old, with a belly full of protesting from the American Left.

Hey Tommy, how about a #67 for $5.96?

A few years ago in another forum we went through this same exercise wit the price of Ithaca 37 shotguns at some point in the 70's. I don't remember the exact numbers, but the host of the matter was hat when you did he math with inflation and the value of the dollar they were about the same price today as in the 70's.

The problem is that our dollar today just ain't what it used to be.

Colonel, I think I got a hell of a good deal then.

I think this knife was made around 1975, according to this inflation calculator this knife would now cost $ 26.59!

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com

Dimitri, what knife are you referring to ?
The above # 67 for $5.96 in 1975 would be $26.59 in 2016, 346% inflation.
kj

Sorry Roland, I entered the wrong amount I corrected it

This is the knife I was referring to, how in 2017 can you go out and buy this knife, made in America, for $26.59?

$5.96 is not the official retail price. In 1975 #67 knife cost about $9.
Moreover, I think that this knife was made in the late 80s.

If that's true what would it have cost in the 1980's?

See table
http://camillusknives.ru/cats_en.shtml

No price lists for the 1980's knives

Sorry, that's all I have. 1981-1991 is a big black hole for prices.

OK thanks