Remington Bowie knife

[espn77]

Interesting knife. It looks 50's to me with a rehandle job. Who cares what the guy thinks its worth. Want to know what you fix blade guys think of the tang stamp?
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre ... 3029762290

[Eye Brand Man]

I say really bad fake. Stamp looks like one letter strike at a time. To me it looks like a German made bowie somebody re handled and stamped

[knife7knut]

I am FAR removed from being an expert on Remington(or any other brand for that matter)knives but every Remington fixed blade I have seen(either in person or in pictures)has been a straight line stamp with an RH and then the model number.The handle looks to be made from a wax sealing stamp.I'm sure someone who is more experienced with them will comment.Also the patina(I hate that word)looks contrived to me.

[espn77]

In the 20-40's the blade profile was never used, the stamp wasn't used. So if it was earlier, that would have it made before they ever made knives. If it was later it would be after they sold out. I guess the knife just made me curious of its origin.

[zzyzzogeton]

Isn't ILION NY spelled ILION NY and not LLION NY? There is no such place as LLION NY.

One would think that a manufacturer would know how to spell the name of the town in which they were located?

I realize we are talking about damnyankees here, but even they would at least have half a clue.

[Paladin]

Isn't ILION NY spelled ILION NY and not LLION NY? There is no such place as LLION NY.

One would think that a manufacturer would know how to spell the name of the town in which they were located? .....

Good catch, ZZ!

Ray

[dweb1897]

Isn't ILION NY spelled ILION NY and not LLION NY? There is no such place as LLION NY.

One would think that a manufacturer would know how to spell the name of the town in which they were located?

I realize we are talking about damnyankees here, but even they would at least have half a clue.

damnyankees...sounds like something a person from Florida would say. A real southerner would capitalize the D

[btrwtr]

Seller is located in Oxford Mississippi. Having no idea where this knife was cobbled hard to say it has anything to do with Yankees.

[zzyzzogeton]

My damnyankees reference was to the folks in Ilion NY, which is where the knife was purportedly made. They would have known how to spell their own town's name.

[dweb1897]

My damnyankees reference was to the folks in Ilion NY, which is where the knife was purportedly made. They would have known how to spell their own town's name.

Couldn't help myself when I saw you were retired Navy

[zzyzzogeton]

My damnyankees reference was to the folks in Ilion NY, which is where the knife was purportedly made. They would have known how to spell their own town's name.

Couldn't help myself when I saw you were retired Navy

To capitalize the "d" (and/or "y") in "damnyankees" would imply that one gives a hoot about them. I was probably 9 or 10 years old before I learned that, in non-Southern society, "damnyankee" was supposed to be 2 words and was considered an epithet. Growing up, I never heard the word "yankee" as a stand-alone word except in the song "Yankee Doodle". Even references to the baseball team of that name were usually "those damnyankees", but mostly by folks pulling for some team other than those "damnyankees". Many a time I heard some old farmer bitching to my dad that "those damnyankees won again."

Even in school, the old US history teacher we had frequently referred to the US Civil War as "The War of Northern Aggression" or "The Carpetbaggers' War."