Yes, that's a possibility.

The majority of 40's metal snap sheaths were "left hand". There are several hypothesis for this (1) The LH sheath was to be worn on the right side because Bo believed that the initial knife thrust should a back handed slashing motion and (2) The LH sheath was to be worn on the left side to allow a 45 to be worn on the right side. (Joe may be able to expand on this). The sheaths changed from LH to RH when the metal snaps transitioned to translucent. In the case of your second knife, the snaps had not completely transitioned.

Ron,

Now that you mention it, I do remember the discussion about LH sheaths and it makes sense.

Nice to read from you Warren...welcome back Buddy !!!

Thank you Guido, and thank you for posting some knives with my favorite blade shape.

Why yes I did Tune thanks to you. I shipped my new addition home from Lakeland and it arrived safely. I couldn't be happier with this absolutely dead mint Crutchtip. '64-'65 I believe you said with splitback riveted sheath. You've got a few more in the vault that would make fine companions with this one. Thanks again for making this happen.

Hi every one not really posted anything of interest but thought this may be.












In the interests of full disclosure I am a knife dealer in the UK and I do love a Randall and have 40 at the mo so I don't know whether questions like this are allowed.

I got this in a collection and the papers give a Vietnam service date of approx 1967 and I was told this knife was circa 1965. I don't know a lot about the older Randalls (but I'm learning, we don't see to many of these over here!!) do you guys think this adds up? From what I've researched it seems to have the right style blade and logo but the stone is a replacement and I wasn't sure about the sheath?

I personally think the knife is older than 1967. Maybe 63 to say about 65. But there are folks here that will know for sure.....I don't know for sure.

The blade appears to have been re-ground for some odd reason. The stamp is earlier than 67 though.

I would be very interested in knowing more about the grind on that blade. I don't think I have seen a model 2 with shoulders that are that narrow. Was that common for the period or an anomaly?

C'mon guys, it is very apparent the knife has been "cleaned" to the extreme. Was probably really used, damaged in some fashion, or pitted.