All About Pocket Knives

I purchased a few vintage bullet knives at an auction and I'm having trouble identify one. It's a 3 blade, with the main blade being a lockback. The main blade has the 1924-1933 tang stamp; the 2 other blades have the 1921-1924 tang stamp. Bone handle, bullet shield and some unique bolsters. No model number on any of the blade tangs.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

snaries wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2026 1:00 amAny help would be greatly appreciated.

this was in our research section: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/ca ... let-knives and might help you out

It’s not real. Harold

My word.
Looks like a Japanese Parker

Unfortunately, that's about as fake as a fake knife can be.

I hope the rest were better.

That's pretty much what I was expecting to see. Thanks for the replies.

Looks like it may have started life as a Parker lockback Whittler.

RobesonsRme.com wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2026 1:51 am Unfortunately, that's about as fake as a fake knife can be.

I hope the rest were better.

Unfortunately, I don't believe the others are much better as far as being authentic. They do look much better, but there are indicators on every knife that
they are not. They look really nice when viewing from two feet away. Not sure where the R293 was manufactured but it is a really nice fake. Super smooth, walk and talk is excellent, blades are tight with no wobble and nicely centered. It's probably just as nice as the Camillus manufactured R293 until you look closely. It appears the bolsters were in the way when the jigging on the handles was being done. The R3843 may be authentic, or partially authentic. It looks pocket worn and there is plenty of patina and carbon spotting on everything except the main blade...it's too nice.

Purchased them from a local online auction...luckily, I didn't spend too much on them. I did pick up some really nice vintage knives at decent prices so I'm not completely disappointed. Lesson learned...hopefully.

Thanks for the reply.

snaries wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2026 12:02 pm
It appears the bolsters were in the way when the jigging on the handles was being done.

Bone handle covers are dyed, jigged, cut to fit and then attached to the scales (liners). In that order. Contrary to what some think, they are not jigged after being attached on the knife. Just FYI. Not sure what happened to the bolsters on your knife, but it wasn’t from being jigged at the factory after they were on the knife. They do look strange though.

This old article from the Case Collectors Club newsletter might help explain it better. I’m sure the process at Remington and other cutleries was similar. Click on it to enlarge for easier reading.

Ken

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2026 10:40 pm

snaries wrote: ↑Sun Jun 14, 2026 12:02 pm
It appears the bolsters were in the way when the jigging on the handles was being done.

Bone handle covers are dyed, jigged, cut to fit and then attached to the scales (liners). In that order. Contrary to what some think, they are not jigged after being attached on the knife. Just FYI. Not sure what happened to the bolsters on your knife, but it wasn’t from being jigged at the factory after they were on the knife. They do look strange though.

This old article from the Case Collectors Club newsletter might help explain it better. I’m sure the process at Remington and other cutleries was similar. Click on it to enlarge for easier reading.

Ken

Ken,

Exactly. I'm 100% sure that knife was not manufactured in the early 1900's or by Remington. It looks as though whoever manufactured it cut the texture into the handle after it was installed on the knife. Not sure if it's visible in the pictures but the jigging cut into the pins in the handles too.