comment on 1006

[downbytheriver]

I just found a pdf file on line that had portions of camillus catalogs the were from the 70 and showed a
1006 1007`1008 and 5684 were the four fixed blade knives in that part of the catalog.

[jerryd6818]

Do you mind sharing a link?

[orvet]

They are the 1972 Catalog on Collectors of Camillus:
http://www.collectors-of-camillus.us/Ca ... WCD-2s.pdf

The 1006, 1007, 1008 are stacked leather handled hunting knives, similar to many other brands.
The 5684 is the Marine Corps fighting knife, commonly called the Ka-Bar.
However during WWII Camillus made a lot more of this pattern than Ka-Bar ever did.


Did you have a question about these knives?

[downbytheriver]

it wasn't a link i clicked on something and it downloaded a pdf , i'm looking for it now

[downbytheriver]

GOOGLE CAMILLUS CATALOGS THEN CLICK ON THE ONE YOU WANT AND IT WILL LOAD
BRAD

[jerryd6818]

The 5684 is the Marine Corps fighting knife, commonly called the Ka-Bar.
However during WWII Camillus made a lot more of this pattern than Ka-Bar ever did.

Dale is correct. Of Union Cutlery Co. (KA-BAR), PAL Blade Co, Camillus Cutlery, and Robeson Cutlery, Camillus supplied more MK-2s than any of them. After WWII ended, Union Cutlery / Ka-Bar discontinued the 1219C2/Mark 2 (Fighting Knife / Utility Knife / Ka-Bar). Camillus had the contract for the 1219C2/Mark 2 from about 1962 up until somewhere around (draw a big circle around) 1974 or maybe later.

Here is an interesting paragraph, taken from Bernard Levine's:
IN THE BEGINNING
THE ORIGINAL U.S. MARINE CORPS KNIVES OF WORLD WAR II

"Looking back today, we picture all World War II Marines
armed with "Ka-Bar" combat utility knives. Yet the fact is that
the very first of those "Ka-Bar" knives (actually made by
Camillus) were shipped from the factory more than five and a half
months after the 1st Marine Division had landed on Guadalcanal,
indeed more than a month after all the survivors of the original
force had been relieved and withdrawn from the island, where they
had stood firm against the worst both the Japanese and the jungle
could throw at them for more than four months."


In 1975, Ka-Bar revived the 1219C2 with a commerative for the 200 year birthday of the Marine Corps. That opened the faucet and they've been making them ever since.