What is it? Old Bowie from great grandfather.

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Hello everyone, I have a knife I would like identified.
I inherited it from my Great Grandfather in law and haven't payed it much attention until last night.
It looks like a Pal RH 36 from what I could tell though slightly different and with no discernible marks.
Thank you for your time.
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For some reason there were a lot of unmarked pal copy's around ww2 and after , but I don't know why .
So you'll likely never know who made it.
 
Hmm ok, so it's probably a copy? That's dissapointing. It seems like a good knife atleast.
 
I'm not sure where they were being made, but it could've been here in the US.

You'd probably get some better answers on the collectors section, as there are people who know more about this than me.
 
Looks like a fighting knife from WWII. Many were made by several Manufacturers during and after the war. GIs wanted a knife like that after the war. Great hunting knives. Good for self protection too!
 
So basically it's just a knife, no way to know the manufacturer. It seems like a good one though, and cool to know it's so old. It sorta has to be.
 
When WW2 ended suddenly with the dropping of 2 A-bombs, the military unilaterally canceled ALL knife/bayonet contracts overnight. Manufacturers were left holding the bag on parts for literally 1000s of blades. Some of the companies completed the knives and sold them on the civilian market. Some companies sold the parts off to some third party(ies) that assembled and sold the knives. 1 example of this are knives stamped WESKE that look just like USN MK2s, but without the stamps. Weske at least stamped their knives, but there were many "assemblers" who just put parts together and sold the knives.
 
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