Help Identifying Old Knife

[Calais66]

Hello-- I recently inherited one of my grandfather’s (also possibly great-grandfather’s?) hunting knives. Looking for some help identifying the maker and approximate age. No maker’s mark on the blade. Approx. 9” long. I’m new to the hobby, so thank you and advance for the help!

 

[Rhinoknives1]

It appears to be a 1930-40’s Marbles, PAL, Remington etc That has been crudely reground, Perhaps after extensive use, and tip breakage.

 

[strategy9]

I'm no expert by any means, and without a maker's mark, it's hard to be 100% certain, and I'm not even 100% sure myself if any of this is an indicator or not, but the black/yellow/then red patterned rings, more rounded handle shape, butt cap, both coupled with the full pommel guard, makes me think of one from the old Marbles "Ideal" / gladstone line of knives, possibly '30's?

Every other "similar" design I've seen, even just now on a quick google search;
remington, western, kabar, etc.: they mismatch at one of those 4 points.
Some of the Marble's Ideal knives of that era, they hit on all 4 points.

As mentioned though, crudely reground into what it is now, probably due to a combination of tip/edge breakage, and surface rust (hence the lack of a maker's mark)...

But then it could also be an 80-90's knockoff that was left out to rot, and was found and reground? IDK?

 

[tltt]

It's a Pal. I'm not sure, but I've always heard that these were made up from leftover WWII contract parts for resale on the post WWII sporting goods market.

It probably started Pal RH - 36 that was shortened and reground -

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[tltt]

Pal also made daggers like these from M-1 Garand bayonet blades in various sizes, so it could be a conversion of one of those also -

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[Arathol]

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Thats exactly what it is. The fuller goes right into the rounded guard, no ricasso etc. Someone at some point in time tried to reshape the bayonet blade to look like a single edge PAL blade.

 

[Calais66]

Thanks for the help, everyone--much appreciated!