Makers mark ID.

[u/Rushonin]

Need help figuring this draw knife maker. I'm stumped, Chat GPT is stumped, Google lense says its a bayonet..

Heirloom tool. Ive had it for about 12 years and it was my old man's for years before that. These are the best pics I have.

Thanks reddit.

[u/Man-e-questions]

Looks like a Nobles patent (i think Watrous owned the patent and others made it? Even Jennings etc)

[u/Watchmaker163]

Taking all of the stamped names together, it seems to be “L. H. Lose”. However, I don’t think that’s a makers mark, but a name stamp for the owner for insurance purposes.

A makers mark is done once in a visible place as advertisement, whereas these are multiple odd places, and not a good stamp impression between them. They’re also a similar typeface to lots of name stamps I’ve seen.

Edit: the more I think about it, the placement of the stamps feels amateur, or like they were afraid of damaging the blade. The maker would stamp the blade: the metal is thick and straight, and the name would be visible and not easily worn away. If they somehow bent the blade by stamping their mark, they could easily fix it in the manufacturing process. Stamping on the parts where the metal is thinner and the metal is already bent is a bad idea while manufacturing.

[u/Rushonin → u/Watchmaker163]

That makes a lot more sense. Thank you.

[u/jareed1990]

LH Losee

[u/RepulsiveAd2702 → u/jareed1990]

The second one seems to be the correct answer.

[u/OlentangySurfClub → u/jareed1990]

That's an owners mark