Looks like this is an old thread. I hope it is still active.
Several years ago, I received a knife that had belonged to my great uncle. No one seemed to know much of him, and less of the knife. I thought it was a neat old knife that my great uncle had own, so I was quite happy with it. I put it safely away and it was only recently that as I was looking for something else, that I came across the box containing this knife.
At this point, perhaps due to some of the other projects I am working on involving WWI and WWII items, my interest was piqued significantly. My research had not yielded the results that I had been hoping to find.
The knife has a 4.75" long blade. Shallow clipped edge and a fuller. It is stamped on one side with a straight line Remington and the DuPont oval. The other side is devoid of all stamped marking.
I would have expected to see an RH number, but it is blank. I do not believe that it has been buffed, sanded or otherwise removed. The material finish looks original.
The overall length is approx. 9.13",
The handle is a black hard rubber that bears the REMINGTON UMC markings. On each end of the Rubber section there are TWO dark reddish spacers separated by thin silver metal spacers.
What I have found in my searching is numerous knives that have a similar style blade, but the handle was made of leather discs, and there are several colored spacers on each end of the handle.
The other type of knife has a rubber handle similar to mine, but NO spacers at all.
Because this has the Remington DuPont stamp, I believe that this was made after Remington sold the cutlery business to DuPont after the Great Depression, yet before DuPont closed their cutlery business in 1940. So I am looking at roughly a 10 year span.
Can anyone help me identify this knife and perhaps narrow down the year of manufacture?
... the bone really is nice and indeed has nice jigging and color - Remington didn’t hold back on quality even on this small knife... if I had to guess I would say Rogers bone and though I like Remingtons I am not an expert like many fine members on this subforum - may be some one would come along who knows...
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