) Anyway - it looks like it might be one of those models with a split/double spring? If it is, that is a nice find. Edgewise wrote:My first Camco barlow bought through AAPK.
Is the handle bakelite?
TJ, I don't know that the Camco line was ever discontinued, prior to the closing of Camillus in 2007.tjmurphy wrote:When was the CAMCO line discontinued? Did it last until Camillus closed shop?
You're right, Orvet. The Camco was made around the 60s (?) at a guess and I can't work up any smell.orvet wrote: It's probably Delrin or an earlier composite. The Camillus brand was not introduced until 1948. I don't think Bakelite was used in knife handles much after the beginning of World War II. I could be wrong on that but based on my observations I think that's correct.
You might test it to see if it smells or tastes like Bakelite.
Those French Ivory handles really make that knife POP!! 
trail wrote:My mother never would let me do that...
because when I was about 5 years old we were visiting my Great Grandmother, and I got bored, so she went to her purse, got her penknife and took me outside to the flowerbed and she taught me how to play mumbly peg. It was a much better world in those days. 
Sad, isn't it? I can remember when we could walk down the street with a pellet gun over the shoulder and shoot pigeons off the power lines and no-one thought anything funny about it. And, just to keep it on topic, we all carried pocket knives to school - it wasn't only not quite legal, it was expected of a boy to carry one - in fact, I can remember several occasions where prizes given by the school for academic, sporting and other achievement were in the form of pocket knives!It was a much better world in those days.
