PRICE REDUCED 30% 1/7/2024: Camping knife, vintage 1950s, outrageous size.

Description: PRICE REDUCED 30% 1/7/2024: Camping knife, vintage 1950s, outrageous size. Post-war Europe, victors and vanquished alike were struggling to use ravaged machine-tools and recycled metal from destroyed factories, weapons, machinery, automobiles, and other bombed out detritus, in order to manufacture Allied-approved products to sell overseas. War debt was being paid by making whatever products that entrepreneurs could make or invent from scavenged junk. This knife is an example of popular saleable goods. The early 1950s era saw the dawning of Walt Disney fantasies and adventure movies, famously Davy Crockett, Spin and Marty, Robin Hood, Treasure Island and more. The opening of Disneyland in California featured both American Wilderness and Jungle entertainment centers, and marketed such products as coonskin caps, toy flintlock rifles and pistols, and camping knives. This knife features the following tools: knife, fork, spoon, leather punch, scissors, can and bottle openers, corkscrew, screwdriver, file, awl, sail needle and lanyard bail. Fork and spoon are stainless steel, all others are stamped from 1/16" sheet steel. Knife blade's tang is poorly stamped "Solingen". Handles are commendably thick plastic to suggest jigged bone. The assembly shows little usage (except the spoon and fork), but the corkscrew shows that it is not up to the challenge and is slightly mutilated. The value in this purchase is in the unit's lightly used condition, and its contemporary appearance as a desperate early attempt to support its country's war recovery, Mailing only to USA-48. Postage is between $5.00---$5.85. Buyer pays $4.00, I will pay the rest. Buy my other knives at the same time and I will pack all in one package with no additional charge. Save mailing costs; also, I will discount a multi-knife purchase. Contact me with your choices! I am liquidating my entire collection; please keep me in your favorite sellers, watching for Old Bryan's Old Knives or the seller name below.

Price: 75 USD

Location: Cary, Illinois

End Time: 2024-02-07T23:39:41.000Z

Shipping Cost: 4 USD