Brother-Can you spare a dime?

[knife7knut]

Here are a couple of Remingtons;one I acquired recently and the other I have had for some time and just noticed something unusual about it.

First is a Remington butcher knife I found recently at a Goodwill store in a HUGE pile of kitchen cutlery(not fun and downright dangerous poking through those!)for the princely sum of ten cents!Not sure how old it is and haven't researched the MoorMans's name yet but it cleaned up nicely and is now serving duty in my kitchen.

The second is an R2265(or possibly R2205;it is hard to read)that I got several years ago in a pile of old worn out knives.The scales are cracked;the master blade is worn on the back of the tang,and the pen blade was snapped in half.I wound up making the pen blade into a combination watch case opener/blade opener and use the other for scraping rust and the like from other knives.

Just the other day I noticed that the master blade has the circular Remington stamp and the pen blade has a straight line stamp.I only have a few Remington folders(mostly letter openers)and none have this feature.Is this common on multi-blade folders?

Anyway here are the pictures.

[remington collector]

On the folding knife- one or the other blades has been replaced. The Remington tang stamp with the line under it were reserved for knives made by other companies for Remington. Its called a straight line Remington. The other blade has a circle Remington tang stamp that dates that blade somewhere between 1935 and 1940. If I could see a picture of the entire knife I could probably tell which blade has been replaced and the pattern # of the knife.