Thanks Rod. Good example of a Heiser with the Old style serif number stamps.

Here is the example of a horizontal sheath that I was referring to in Sheldon's book. Page 111. Its oriented horizontally IMO because of space restrictions. Notice also the model number is up at the top, above the ring, new style font.

Sam, All of these are brown button sheaths with Randall stamps.

Sam,

The picture from Sheldon's book is an 80's sheath...... not valid for your data set.

Mitchell -

2nd sheath from the bottom, the #1appears to have been done with a different stamp than the others.

Maybe, or I thought it could just be a light strike.......

Thanks Mitch. All of your pictures fall exactly in line with my findings.
Joe, see how the serif on the number 1 on that sheath you mentioned is angled down? It is in line with the old style serif number stamp.
As I mentioned before, I have seen the new style number stamp with a serif, but only straight, not angled Like the Heiser sheaths display.
Thanks Mitch for dating that pancake flipper sheath, it illustrates my point that horizontal orientation without numbers, or with new style number stamp is possible, but my findings have only seen them when it was a fit issue.

if it was a light strike, he sure made up for it on the 8!

Light or not, it looks like a different #1 stamp to me than the others, as does the #1 stamp on the center sheath of the three knives posted in the other thread. These two appear to be similar or the same stamp.

Photo from Sam's post at top of page.

Pancake Sheath

Thanks Buck.
Yes, this is the pancake flipper sheath that Mitch said is from the 80's. It displays a horizontal RMK stamp with new style numbers at the top.
It illustrates my point that there are horizontal stamps with new style number stamps, but the RMK stamp appears to be oriented in that way because of fit restrictions.
Standard west or horizontal stamp sheaths seem to all display the old style serif number stamps, as seen on every Heiser sheath that I have seen.
Thanks for all of the contributions in this research. Hopefully it continues, and if there are exceptions to these findings, please post them so we can continue to learn about these sheaths.

Also, if you go thru your collection and there are no exceptions, let us know that.
How many sheaths that you have that fall in this early time frame. This way we can get a sense of how common or uncommon the exceptions are.

Sam, check out this one...