Danny can probably fill in the detail with a simple phone call, but his dad, Greg Gutcher, Sr. told me that his cost for RMK's, minus the 25% dealer discount, included the cost of the sheath, as per contract with RMK. If he opted to sell a knife sans (without) a sheath, he still had to pay catalog price for said knife.
Remember, some of RMK's first volume buyers during WWII were VL&A, and Abercrombie & Finch, that bought and resold knives from many makers. Knives, not knives and sheaths; they, for the most part, provided their own sheaths. Ref. Marbles styled sheaths on WWII era RMK's.
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