Possible uncommon Remington TL-29

[remtl29]

Hello everyone,

I found this place after a lot of looking around the web trying to figure out what this knife is. Great site.

So here's the story:

An acquaintance of mine was told his knife was valuable, but he had no idea what it was.

There is no engraving on the emblem or the wood. The only markings are the standard Remington emblem on both the blade and screwdriver, with that era's "Made in the USA" and it is 3 1/2" closed

After some looking around the web I figured out it was a TL-29 type Remington.

As you can see from the picture the blade didn't match anything I could find on that era's Remington TL-29. The blade looks like it's from that time period.

I learned a lot about this knife over the past few days. A lot of people seem to have fond recollections about it. Even if it's not rare, but a mod, then I figure you'd like to see it anyway.

My guess is that someone switched the standard blade out for the blade we see, but I figured it was worth checking in here to see if anyone has seen an instance of this blade and driver combination on this model.

All right guys, thanks for reading, I'll give it a day or so and check in to hear your thoughts.

[djknife13]

Welcome to AAPK. I'm sure some of the more knowledgable Rem. collectors will check in, but until then I'll add my 2 cents. I have a Remington electricians knife, but mine has a slide lock and is a number R4548 with cocobolo scales and a blade in each end. I don't know if your's is a later version or perhaps earlier, but I've only seen the one I have to date. Yours is the more traditional pattern everyone else made of the TL29 style. I'm anxious to see what the guys that actually know say about your knife. ___Dave

[junebug]

hello!
welcome to AAPK

i have only seen em with regular nail nicks........
yers has a LONG PULL......

i too would wait for one of the guys who is HEAVY into em'......


the ones i have seen look like this
http://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-REMINGT ... 19fb63297c

http://www.ebay.com/itm/US-Army-WW2-SIG ... 46322844c8

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-nMint-TL-2 ... 234c8d9f73

[remtl29]

Yes, my understanding is that Remington made this style knife from roughly 1935 to 1940, then they stopped making them (that knife division) was bought out by another company, WWII happened and there were a LOT of these made by other companies.

Everything on this one matches Remington's pre-WWII version of the electrician's/radio knife except for that blade shape and nail nick. I have seen that Remington blade on other pocket knives from that era, and the tang stamp matches. I mean, even the aging of the blade and screwdriver match, so rather than assuming someone switched the knife blade out with another Remi blade, I figured I'd post it here. Hey, even if it's not some prototype version from Remington or something, I know people would like to see it here anyway.

Completed listings from ebay are very helpful

[remington collector]

I believe that the main blade has been replaced at some point in time.

[AREMINGTONSEDGE]

remtl29, Welcome to AAPK. Just a couple observation for you.

1. This is not an original main blade for this knife. Remington collector is correct in his assessment and June bug is correct related to the nail nick. The model number R2111 has a spear blade with short nail pull not a long pull.

2. Notice the pins are made out of two different types of material, some are brass and some are what appears to be steel or nickle silver. Remington never mixed the pins.

3. The bolster's end pin does not match up to the nickle silver bolster that came with R2111 model. This is suspect to the knife being taken apart.

4. The pail loop at the end of the knife I believe is also incorrect for the Model R2111, the pail loop should be "plain" and not with the "2 ring" design of the pail loop near the pinning. Could be that I am wrong on this aspect because I've seen them both ways.

I do not believe it was changed with intent to mislead but back in the day is was a working man's tool and may have been broken in the trade and replaced so it could continue to be a valuable tool. Even towards the end of Remington's cutlery division in 1940 and through the depression years prior to the sell of that division to PAL, Remington did a lot to cut cost but "never" cut quality or mixed matched model number parts of one model # to another model # on their knives. That being said PAL did what they wanted when they bought the cutlery division but could not use products with the Remington trademark. Yours from what your picture shows has the Remington Trademark circa. 1933-1935. Hard to tell if that is script lettering if so it will be the later circa. Of the Remington , DuPont cutlery era.

Hope this helped a little.


Edit: TJ is a TL29 Guru and I think he may have a Remington R2111 knife and if so can give some further insight related to our assessments. Good luck!

[tjmurphy]

See here: http://allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_f ... 67&t=44394

[remtl29]

Okay guys, thank you for the comments and insights, especially Rocky, really appreciate your taking the time to write something up man.

Shame it's not an official variation on the style, but it was worth a shot to find out.

All right, take care and have a great spring.