Knife ID help, RH PAL 50?

[freedoom]

Found this at a local consignment shop for $15. Looks like an old bushcraft knife. tang stamp says RH PAL 50, Made in USA. The blade is a little blemished but isn't bent or chipped. the pommel is a little lose and there is some damage on the handle.

can anyone help with resources about the knife or the company that made it?

 

[steampunk]

Looks like an old quarter master knife from ww1 or 2

 

[malextwo]

I own a couple of Pal slippies. I think in your case it's a brand name.

Mike

 

[freedoom]

I own a couple of Pal slippies. I think in your case it's a brand name.

Mike

So that would make this a PAL model HR-50?

 

[Mossyhorn]

PAL made knives on Remington machinery starting in 1940. They used Remington's numbering system. The RH-50 was a boy scout knife made in several variations. They were excellent knives.

 

[Thomas Linton]

"This agreement entered into this 17th day of January, 1941 by and between Remington Arms Company, Inc., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, having a principal office at Bridgeport, Connecticut, hereinafter referred to as "the seller" and Joseph L. Mailman, Besse M. Kraus, Otto E. Kraus, Mary Langner, citizens and residents of the State of New York and Abraham L. Mailman, a citizen and resident of Montreal, Canada, all doing business as partners under the firm name of PAL BLADE COMPANY, having a principal office at New York, N.Y., and hereinafter referred to as " the buyer", ..."

 

[Ernie1980]

This thread is over 7 years old

 

[Thomas Linton]

And now it is more accurate.

 

[supratentorial]

Coincidentally...earlier this evening, I quoted the wrong 1940 date given in Goins' Encyclopedia during a discussion elsewhere on the net. I'll pencil in the correct 1941 date in my copy of Goins' Encyclopedia.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Careful. You posted in a seven-year-old thread. The Time Police may get 'ya.

 

[Ernie1980]

They just might! But since it is back open, maybe we should share some pictures of Pal knives:

 

[Peregrin]

From the guidelines:

Thread "necromancy" is frowned upon. Please do not resurrect dormant threads simply to say "nice knife" or the like.
If you have something substantive to add to the discussion then by all means do so, otherwise move on and let sleeping dogs lie.

Looks OK to me.