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Posted: **Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:35 pm**

Well, I was looking for pics of a #15 last week.... BUT THEN, as I was looking back at that bunch of dead (actually only sick) knives, I see I have a #74 that needs help.
Well.... while looking thru the Camillus catalogs, I just can't seem to find a #74. The 1946 catalog skips from #73 to #91.... Same for the 1948 catalog.

The 1955 catalog shows the #72 then skips to #75.... still no #74.
The 1965 catalog..... same story as 1955...
No matter where I look.... ebay, the web, here on AAPK.... I can't find that a #74 ever existed.

The tang stamp does say #74 doesn't it?

Sorta look like mother of toilet seat scales..... I guess I could go off that for a restore.

Anybody out there actually got a #74 you can show me?

Thanks y'all...
Mike

Posted: **Fri Aug 23, 2019 2:58 pm**

Mike, it's the same story with the #53. No record of it ever being produced, yet here it is. Makes ya wonder if they both struggled for a foothold in the knife world at the same time.

Posted: **Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:22 pm**

Meridian_Mike wrote:Well, I was looking for pics of a #15 last week.... BUT THEN, as I was looking back at that bunch of dead (actually only sick) knives, I see I have a #74 that needs help.
Well.... while looking thru the Camillus catalogs, I just can't seem to find a #74. The 1946 catalog skips from #73 to #91.... Same for the 1948 catalog.

The 1955 catalog shows the #72 then skips to #75.... still no #74.
The 1965 catalog..... same story as 1955...
No matter where I look.... ebay, the web, here on AAPK.... I can't find that a #74 ever existed.

The tang stamp does say #74 doesn't it?
Camillus #74 pile.JPG
Camillus #74 mark.JPG

Sorta look like mother of toilet seat scales..... I guess I could go off that for a restore.

Anybody out there actually got a #74 you can show me?

Thanks y'all...
Mike

From the December 1949 Buhl Sons Company catalog.
Sorry, best I can do, but it IS a pattern #74.
Click to ENLARGE the picture.

Posted: **Fri Aug 23, 2019 3:36 pm**

Well, well, well.....
They do exist..... I guess they are just not very popular.

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