I’ve been admiring all the beautiful old Scout/Camp knives that everyone has been posting lately. This is one area of my knife collection that is pretty slim. I do have a nice old Schrade Cut Co “Scouts Prepare” example but that is the extent of my collection. I recently picked this Camillus up from the big auction site. It was listed as a Post WW2 Engineers Knife. I know it’s been cleaned, but it’s not been buffed away like a lot of older knives are today. I’m no expert and would appreciate any info from you that are more in the know. I am pretty sure that this tang stamp dates this one from 1946-1956. I will say that I have no doubt that it could easily last another 60 to 70 years. It’s tight with great walk and talk. It’s dull as a butter knife but I’ll take care of that. And the bone, wow just beautiful bone! I’m sure it’s worth every penny of the $26 I paid!
Nice find!!!! Good bone on that one, and that main blade still has a ton of life left in it. It's wonderful that so many of these knives can still be found, in very good condition, and for a modest amount of money. They've got a heck of a lot of bang for the buck, and you don't feel too bad adding a knife with such a low rarity to your EDC rotation.
Yours looks maybe post-war. Brass liners. 3-line tang stamp. These were sold at PX's and such, and available through quartermasters, but most seemed to have 4-line tang stamps. Knives of the same exact pattern were sold on the open market after the war, but I don't have a clear understanding of whether the bone covered examples were confined only/mainly to the military. Lots of the post-war knives, and even some of the war knives, were covered in nasty shrinky-dink plastic, that reached its half life quite quickly.
So yours is one of the tougher knives to pin down. It may be post-war, but could also have been a late-war model. Camillus was playing with new tang stamps late in the war. The late-war era saw a mixture of bone and plastic being used, as the bone supply quickly dried up.
I can say that yours is what Camillus called a 14/4. It's based on the 14 pattern with 4 blades. This pattern was used for a long, long time. Long before the war and even into the 1980's. Maybe longer. That's at least 50 years of manufacturing, and possibly more. There are tons of variations on the 14/4, usually cosmetic, but also featuring at least 4 different styles of can openers and at least 2 different caplifter/screwdriver varieties.
Can you take a picture of the springs and liners for me, with the tools in the closed position?
I saw one similar (not as pristine as yours) to this on The Bay not long ago but wasn't in a spending mood 
