Photos Remington 38H ?

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Someone offers to sell me this fairly large fixed blade, of which i think it's a Remington 38H model.
Sad thing is that somewhere in time a previous owner thought it a good idea to roughly grind the area where the brand name might have been, and there's no sheath.
Current owner made the pictures.
What do you guys think ?





 
Maybe Remington ground their name off of a second. I can't think of a more positive reason for that to have happened. Does the seller say it's a Remington?
 
I don't think Remington would have done such a hackjob, but who knows ?
It looks like it was done with a Dremel or comparable, even the back of the blade shows grind marks (just in front of the guard, enlarge the last picture)
The seller doesn't state the Remington brand or a model number.
 
I have a Remington “second” with the name ground off/into with what looks like a dremal cutoff wheel.
 
RH36 OAL = 10 3/4 inches
RH38 OAL = 12 1/2 inches
RH40 OAL = 14 1/2 inches (Remington's largest fixed blade)

The knife in your original post has a blade that looks like the RH36, i.e. blade grind, swedge, flats, fuller. Neither the RH38 or RH40 blades look similar to a RH36. I don't know what to make of the OAL you were given unless the measurement was not accurate.

You might also want to post this over in Bernard Levine's subforum. There's some expertise there that might be helpful.
 
According to my "Remington knives past and present" book; The Rh36, Rh38, and Rh40 all had leather handles. That knife has stag. None of the stag handled models have the spacers between the aluminum pommel, and the stag or between the guard and the stag. The knife in your pictures does. The longest Remington stag handled knife is the RH290, with a 5 inch blade and nine inches over all. I'm not a Remington knives expert. All I can say is it doesn't match what my book lists for the RH38, or for that matter any other Remington fixed blade shown in the book.

O.B.
 
could it possibly be one of the common generic " Original Bowie " knives imported from Solingen from the 50's-70's ?
 
tongueriver said:
I like that idea quite a bit. I have a Remington H-38 and it does not resemble this knife.
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It looks extremely close to the examples I've seen in a quick Google search , the only real difference being the state vs stacked leather.
Could still actually be a solingin made copy though I guess
 
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