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The Camillus Cutlery Company was one of the oldest knife manufacturers in the United States with roots dating back to 1876. The company manufactured Camillus branded knives and was a prolific contractor for other knife brands up until its last days in 2007 when the company filed for bankruptcy.
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Now that's some pretty good accounting Dale. But yes, I think that the one you did for me is the one that started the snowball down the hill. ::tu:: And what a great snowball it is ::groove:: ::groove::
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Grant, I don't think that Door In The Wall guy down in Texas has a single knife that isn't pumped up to 4 or 5 times the price of a normal knife. Is he just sitting around waiting for a fish to bite or does he really have that much of an inflated opinion of the value of his knives? ::disgust::

In all fairness, all his auctions do have the "Or Best Offer" option.
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tendots wrote:Next thing is RR brings a 72 to the market. ::hmm::
....check out RR106....nice little knife, if it was just made in the u. s., I would try one!!!........ ::tu:: ...........
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I was just browsing this thread like I always do and decided to account for all the nice #72's and their clones that I have now thanks to you guys. So here they are in their glory.
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Nice collection Mountain man
Here a few of mine
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Grant,you still have space left for another ten to twelve 72 knives.Btw that red one(smooth bone) in the pic.......custom? ::tu::
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tendots wrote:Grant,you still have space left for another ten to twelve 72 knives.Btw that red one(smooth bone) in the pic.......custom? ::tu::
I will rehandle one in red smooth bone when I find away to dye the bone.
I am running out of bone looks like I will have to kill some more cattle.
I don't make a lot of money on the farm but I can eat well.Steak , lamb and sometimes pork.
I tried to eat kangaroo but It keeps jumping of the plate. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Seems you have lots of camels down there,very nice bone.I run a small dairy farm so you don't have to tell me about finances ::undecided::
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tendots wrote:Seems you have lots of camels down there,very nice bone.I run a small dairy farm so you don't have to tell me about finances ::undecided::
The big supermarket here discounting milk have sent most of the dairy farmer out of the industry.
I have never seen a wild camel they live in the centre of Australia.
We export camels to the Middle East .
I been to Western Australia a few times( 3600km ),Seen a lot of wild goats, wedgetail eagles ( the size of turkeys )dingo and kangaroos.
The eagles are eating road kill and are slow to fly so they break a lot of windscreens.
They have airstrips on the highway for the air-ambulance.
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tendots wrote:Grant,you still have space left for another ten to twelve 72 knives.Btw that red one(smooth bone) in the pic.......custom? ::tu::
I will rehandle one in red smooth bone when I find away to dye the bone.
I am running out of bone looks like I will have to kill some more cattle.
I don't make a lot of money on the farm but I can eat well.Steak , lamb and sometimes pork.
I tried to eat kangaroo but It keeps jumping of the plate. :lol: :lol: :lol:
Grant

Kinda like frog legs :mrgreen:

Tendots, if you're talking about the pic that I posted, yes, Dale (Orvet) rehandled it for me.

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Scott -- That's a very nice start you have going on there. I was a lot farther into the addiction before I got my first bone handle and you appear to have at least two. Nice!!!


Grant -- What a great pile. Are most of them Camillus, Schrade & Ulster? What's the third one in from the right in the top row?


T.J. -- You're killin' me buddy. The only thing I can do is retaliate. I'll see your red bone rehandled Scout ::drool:: ::drool:: and raise you a Scout rehandled in pre-ban elephant ivory by Wallace Rockwell. (How's that for some name dropping one upmanship?) :lol:
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That's a killer, Jerry. But I'll call and raise you a black-lipped pearl from the bench of Glennbad and the pearl pile of Orvet
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tjmurphy wrote:That's a killer, Jerry. But I'll call and raise you a black-lipped pearl from the bench of Glennbad and the pearl pile of Orvet
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........all these exotic handles y'all are showing are killing me, t. j.!!......... ::tu:: ........btw, I gigged a frog one night years ago that was so big, we ate the FRONT legs!!!!........... ::ds:: ......................
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Oooooooooooooo ::barf:: Aren't those the legs they use to pick their nose and scratch their butt??
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........I don't know about that, but they were "finger-lickin'" good!!!!................. ::tu:: ..............
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I'll call your black-lip pearl from the bench of Glennbad with a gold-lip pearl (provided by orvet) from the bench of Wallace Rockwell with bolsters engraved by Damon Soileau.
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::uc:: ::uc:: ::uc:: You win, I fold ::teary_eyes:: ::teary_eyes:: ::teary_eyes::

You got some real beauts there, Jerry. What else ya got??
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carrmillus wrote:........I don't know about that, but they were "finger-lickin'" good!!!!................. ::tu:: ..............
Oooooooooooooo!! Isn't that what you use to pick your nose and scratch your butt ::uc::
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jerryd6818 wrote:I'll call your black-lip pearl from the bench of Glennbad with a gold-lip pearl (provided by orvet) from the bench of Wallace Rockwell with bolsters engraved by Damon Soileau.
...........you and t. j. are doing your best to try and convert a rogers bone purist!!!!........ ::tu:: .............
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tjmurphy wrote:::uc:: ::uc:: ::uc:: You win, I fold ::teary_eyes:: ::teary_eyes:: ::teary_eyes::

You got some real beauts there, Jerry. What else ya got??
Well, I got this one with no markings on it anyplace. It came with a sheet of paper that's marked Whitetail Cutlery. It appears to have been made in the cradle of fine cutlery on the Indian sub-continent by that world famous cutler, Paki Stan and adorned with faux pearl acrylic handles. I know all this to be true because it came from a knowledgable and reliable source for desireable cutlery in Kentucky.
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WOW!! Just WOW!!! You got three of them from custom builders, Damon Soileau, Wallace Rockwell, and now, Paki Stan. You da man, Jerry!!!
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::rotflol::!!..........
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You can tell I'm proud of that one by Paki Stan, I kept some of the paperwork. There was more but it came on a roll and I've used it all. :mrgreen:
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QUOTE" Grant -- What a great pile. Are most of them Camillus, Schrade & Ulster? What's the third one in from the right in the top row?

Jerry that knife is is straight line Remington
All the ones in the top row are clones or contract knives
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Hey fellow 72aholics. Yesterday was a good day for the clone pile.

Brokered a trade with Dave (dcgm4) and got more than I bargained for. The trade was for an Olsen OK USA #25 (72 clone) he picked up a couple of years ago. When it arrived what was actually in the box were three clones. There was the agreed on Olsen #25 plus a German York with bone handles and pinned shield. The third one I have never heard of. It's a German AMPLOUGH #52 with bone handles and pinned shield and "Johnson Wires" etched on the back of the main blade. It looks like it could have come out of the same factory as the York or a German Olsen.

Thank you for your generosity Dave. I'm quite pleased with these new additions to my pile of 72s and their clones.
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