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Comment by peter force on September 17, 2013 at 2:18

hey charles!! first off great knife and i would AGREE 100% with you that it is original to the knife.   before i even saw your post i saw the sheath but  and cross my heart i didnt scorll down or it would have saved me sometime..hahah!...

i also went ahead and searched the LM symbol i actual;ly also came up with the original logo which im attaching the pic here for you that i found so you can see it mathces the one on the sheath right dwon to ho they place the lettering.  

 

now the R.A mosat likely employee ..i was rewarded with knife and pen sets before while working. high sales numbers ..stuf like that.

anyay in this case whoever R.A was and maybe a few more are out thier but he/she most lielty worked for TM and they ordered like lots of companies did,say this knife for 5 or 10 years service or no accidents. ...who really knows but it ads to the story of the knife!!..i prefer ODD sheaths like this.makes the sheath harder to find then knife and they are fun to dig up the history on it...ALSO A KEY FACTOR IS...it helps to date the knife to no later then 1967...  HERE IS THE STORY I FOUND ALONG WITH LOGO!!

Line Material Company

Line Material equipment typically displays the company's LM initials inside a triangle inside a circle logo somewhere on the housing and glass refractor. Fixtures manufactured after 1957 typically include a label that reads, "Line Material Manufacturing, a McGraw-Edison Company."

logo is dead on match to logo on the sheath!

Featured Comment by Charles Sample on September 14, 2013 at 20:29

Now I think that might actually be the original sheath that came with that knife.  I did some research on the internet today.  That LM logo was the logo for Line Materials Industries.  They made electrical equipment including street lights.  Never had any thing to do with manufacturing knives.  In 1957 they were a division of McGraw-Edison.  In 1967 they were consolidated under the McGraw-Edison name.  After 1967 there was no Line Materials Industries.  So this sheath was no later than 1967.  I am thinking the R. A. is probably someone's initials.  Since the sheath fits the knife perfectly like it was made for it, I wonder if the company might have presented this knife and sheath to employees or maybe just one employee?  While I was with TVA, I received a Schrade scrimshawed two knife set as a tenth anniversary service award and a single knife that was presented to every member of my work group as a safety award.  So that type of thing did happen.