It's In The Mail

[gsmith7158]

Greg, I haven't been payin' attention like I should and will just have to echo woodwalker's comments about the knives you posted yesterday.
Beautiful bone on all of 'em!
Treefarmer

Thanks Phillip! They should be here Saturday. I'll give a full report after the blade show.

[Meridian_Mike]

Schrade Birdseye 835Y on the way. I kinda like the way this style looks. Big ole rivet heads and all..... There is a crack in the scale in one spot and somebody has scratched the day-lights out of the blades but not too bad all in all.
Why the heck do people think if they take sand paper to the blades and scratch them all up it will make a collector buy 'em quicker? Sheeeeesh.

Mike

[Colonel26]

Well, I did it again. I’m a sucker for a HOK, can’t help myself. So when one of my hands down favorite old Camillus stockman knives showed up for a price my cheapskate self couldn’t resist, I got that eyes glazed over look and pounced.

Bone handled Camillus 69. I’m hoping she’ll clean up nice.

[BWT]

Very nice, I love it!!

[Pile Driver]

Very cool, I have a segment of my collecting for knives just like that. I really need to work on them and rotate carrying them.

[philco]

Wade I do believe she's sporting some Rogers bone handles. Please verify upon receipt.

[Colonel26]

Wade I do believe she's sporting some Rogers bone handles. Please verify upon receipt.

Will do. Cuz and I have been sussing it out over text today. From what we can tell from the pictures it appears to be a long line stamp and that seems to be, according to JerryD, a rare bird.

Lots of maybes here. I’m anxious to get it in hand.

[jerryd6818]

seems to be, according to JerryD, a rare bird.

Yes sir. Tis my opinion it was made on the cusp of Camillus discontinuing the use of bone for handles in the late '50s. I've been of a mind for some time now that the long line stamp came into use a few years before 1960. Of course, it's all guesswork with Camillus.


Speaking of Case. This Wharncliffe Copperhead looked like it was going to be delivered yesterday but that turned into a big disappointment. Hopefully Monday. According to USPS Tracking, it shows leaving Palatine IL (my regional hub) early on Saturday morning but it doesn't show it arriving Rockford yet. (it's only about 60 miles)

Sellers poor picture, enhanced by PhotoScape.

[jmh58]

jerry.. Even with that fuzzy pic that looks AWESOME!! Cant wait to see it with your SUPER pics!!! I LIKE IT!!!! John

[Colonel26]

That CASE is going to be a nice one Cuz.

[gsmith7158]

I just jumped in my time machine and went back to 1946. I scored this Sta-Sharp Trapper.

[jerryd6818]

Camillus sure made some beauties and that one has somehow come through the past ~70 years without aging a day. I'm droolin' on my keyboard.

[ludwig26]

I just jumped in my time machine and went back to 1946. I scored this Sta-Sharp Trapper.

That is a nice knife. I recently got a couple of Sta-sharp Barlow’s and was watching that trapper. Probably one of a very few left in that condition. Congrats.
Kerry

[Colonel26]

That’s a nice one for sure Greg!

[gsmith7158]

That’s a nice one for sure Greg!

Thanks guys! I was really after that mint Camillus 69 deluxe stockman but got outbid on it. Not a bad consolation prize though.

[Colonel26]

That’s a nice one for sure Greg!

Thanks guys! I was really after that mint Camillus 69 deluxe stockman but got outbid on it. Not a bad consolation prize though.

I was watching the 69 myself. It sure was a looker.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

That’s a nice one for sure Greg!

Thanks guys! I was really after that mint Camillus 69 deluxe stockman but got outbid on it. Not a bad consolation prize though.

I was watching the 69 myself. It sure was a looker.

Indeed it was, wish I could have got that one.

[gsmith7158]

Thanks guys! I was really after that mint Camillus 69 deluxe stockman but got outbid on it. Not a bad consolation prize though.

I was watching the 69 myself. It sure was a looker.

Indeed it was, wish I could have got that one.

I made a final bid of $250 but somebody wanted it a little more. I'm afraid to think what I might have bid had that been a #72 or #80 deluxe in that condition.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I was watching the 69 myself. It sure was a looker.

Indeed it was, wish I could have got that one.

I made a final bid of $250 but somebody wanted it a little more. I'm afraid to think what I might have bid had that been a #72 or #80 deluxe in that condition.

Oh wow! I did not look at the final bid price, that's a pretty penny for sure. But, when you get a knife that nice you forget about the money you spent on it

[gsmith7158]

Yeah, you just don't get many shots at a knife that clean and pristine.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

That seller in particular has had some very fine knives, if I had knives that nice I would probably never sell them.

[Colonel26]

Well it’s here. It ain’t near as pristine as the one that got away from all of us, but for $14 and change shipped it’ll do! And the more rare in bone long line helps too. It does appear someone replied the shield at some point. Looks like some ooze seeped our from under it.

Wade I do believe she's sporting some Rogers bone handles. Please verify upon receipt.

Phil, I say it is and Cuz says it is, soooooooo....

[gsmith7158]

Excellent eye Wade, that's a deluxe for sure!

[Colonel26]

Thanks Greg.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

That one has plenty of life left, nice bone too.