All About Pocket Knives

Nice set of triplets.

Thanks Roger. It's quadruplets now

Here is a R1273 Bullet Trapper. It is more uncommon than the R1263. The R1273 differs from the R1263 in that the master blade is a long spear instead of a clip.

Thanks for looking

I really like big old etched blade knives.A+

Ralph, or Jerry?,that first bullet you posted is a stunner.

Yea,that Wayne is OK. He's helped me out at least twice.I hope he's not done.

Thanks Lyle. Your Remington French ivory Farmer's Jack is quite the stunner, too.

Here is the last, but definitely not least, of the Remington Bullets in the Banana / Hobo / Trapper pattern style. This is the R293 B which came with the Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine subscription for $2.50. This pattern does not have a pattern number stamped on the tang. The "heft" of this knife is very noticeable in the hand.

Thanks for looking.

That's a lot of steel in some beautiful handles. I have several banana trappers,but nothing old nice.I liked that pattern before I concentrated on farmers jacks.

Jerry nice HTT knife and magazine. Hard to find knife.

Harold

I'm impressed.

Harold and Roger, thanks for the compliments. I should have mentioned that I "appropriated" the magazine pictures from another post on AAPK. I am on the hunt to trap a H-T-T magazine to supplement my Bullet knife collection.

Wade, if you read this maybe the comment I made to you regarding your pursuit of Western stockman patterns about me being able to related to goal-driven (aka obsessed ) collecting will make more sense.

I have a bone handled Challenge folding hunter that is lightly etched H-T-T Columbus Ohio.Did Hunter Trader Trapper magazine become Fur Fish & Game?

I did a google search and answered my question.H-T-T was started by A R Harding in 1900.He got some some kind of illness in 1914 and sold the magazine.In 1925 after recovering he tried to buy it back and was rebuffed.He started FFG and it is still going and family owned.H-T-T closed in 1938.Both were/are in Columbus.

Wow! Great looking knife! That issue of HTT had the Remington "Bulldog" in it, which is in this thread somewhere. The magazine ad for your knife I got from Tony Bose, assuming it's the same one. I wrote a short sidebar on HTT knives in my book.

Issues of HTT show up on that large auction site. For a while there I was asking the sellers if there were any knife ads in the issues they had for sale. There are scanned copies of HTT available on Google Books.

Many thanks to Harold / Stockman I was able to find some good copies of H-T-T magazine with advertisements for the HTT Bullet knife R293B.

Here is a picture of a nice gently used & sharpened R3643 stockman pattern with a turkish clip master. As is typical on many bone handled Remingons, the handles are really nice.

Thanks for looking.

Jerry Nice stockman. I've never seen that pattern.

Harold

Ralph that is a real looker.

Jerry.

Thanks Royal, Roger, Harold, and Larry. It is difficult (for me anyway) to find the old Remington knives in good condition.

Very worthy of collection Jerry,glad you got it. I bet you are too. I'm grin'n.

Thanks Lyle for the comments on the stockman knife.

Here are 2 variations of the R1613. One of them has a round shield and the other one has the traditional bullet shield. I have seen both versions referred to as "bullet" knives. Per my observations, the round shield version seems more prevalent.

Does anyone know if the round shield variation is officially a bullet pattern?

Thanks for looking.

Jerry, you without doubt have one of the best original Remington knife collections that I have viewed. Not only is the condition of your knives in top quality but you have acquired some of the more rare and desirable patterns that are impressive to look at. Thank you for showing such beauty in what Remington produced in it's hay-day.

You asked a question that most would say is "stirrin' the pot!" "Is the round shield officially a bullet pattern?"
Some would argue no because it is not the side profile of A Remington cartridge and some would argue it is because it was a primer view of the head section of the cartridge. Personally speaking, Remington did not advertise them as Bullet knives but for the knife's usefulness regarding what they were made to be used for, example, hunting, fishing, camping, the many uses needed in the labor force in general. It wasn't until the 1980's when Remington used specific marketing ploys to sell more Remington rifles and came up with the Bullet knife poster by L.W. Duke and limited edition reproduction "Bullet Knives" made by Camillus for Remington. it was excepted at the time that the bullet round shield and the bullet profile shield were all "Bullet Knives".
I personally view them in that capacity as well and I believe that Mel Brewster in his books on the Remington Bullet Knife also viewed them as one in the same.

Thanks again for the look see in your collection I do love it! Rocky

Rocky, thank you for the kind words and thank you for noticing! Your Remington collection is very nice as well, especially your fixed blades. Like you, I appreciate the quality workmanship, materials, and aesthetic found in Remington's vintage knives.

It is a challenge to find good Remington examples, as you are probably well aware:) . There are 3 Bullets that I still need to complete the full set: R1128, R1173, R4466. I believe the R1128 and R1173 are achievable as they pop up occasionally and regrettably I have let some nice ones get away. I have never seen a R4466 so I am not optimistic about finding one.

In addition to the bullets, my Remington collecting interest is driven by the condition of the knife - I like any Remington pattern in good condition. Fortunately there aren't very many so I don't buy very many

I also collect vintage Case knives and try to focus on just a few patterns (30, 45, 050, 65, 72, 76, 94) as a means to "control" my knife purchases.

Ok Jerry here ya go. This antique dealer states that this is an original Mint condition Remington R4466
Baby Bullet knife. He has a very high price on the sell ticket. Tell me what you think, I am always the skeptic with this kind of money involved. Rocky

That picture does not look like stag. It is a real poor picture on my screen.

Harold