Mainly, I sense someone having too much concern over
supposed knot-invention dates. It’s not as though a Nobel
hangs in the balance, after all. There are a lot of knots
in ABoK’s 1944 & since light, but which don’t register much
of a blip on the knots-in-use-scanning radar now or even then
–maybe only copied in books!? And some knots --e.g., the
“Reverse Groundline Hitch”-- that are well in use but which
I’ve yet to see described in any literature (esp. knots books);
it shows a form as a Miller’s knot & GLHitch, but the use of
it in wrapping of line around others or a net hem just doesn’t
appear.
(Oh, also, I just realized that Hensel & Gretel’s Plate 45#311
“Combination Square Knot Hitch” (?) got into KM (sort of)
by GBudworth (in alias Cy Canute at km037:21). GB presented
a stopper --and it’s a good one! (but not copied by anyone,
even GB or his alias John Shaw!?) H&G presented a
who-can-guess knot, devoid of rationale or loading; it makes
a good hitch & binder around flexible things --essentially
being a Constrictor.)
The date given in my ollllld notebook isn’t THAT hard to
decipher :: (in my knot-ID form it’s “#19790913h1630”
(1979-09-13, tHursday, 4:30pm). And this came to me
some month(s) after my “Diamond Bend” referred to on
the righthand side of the page, which IIRC was just a few
months or less prior.
IIRC, the late Owen Nuttall claimed to have discovered
and used these --or maybe ONE of these-- e2e joints
“in the '70s”, which pretty well assures us that it was
prior the 9th month of the last year of them!
SO, I’ll be happy believing that Owen & I came across
the knots way back when, and that Jack Reimann did
so likely well later but was who brought them to public
awareness via Knotting Matters. (And some other
knot-universe explorers have also come across them.)
(I might add that I seldom have tied those knots; heck,
even “my” first knot --SmitHunter’s Bend (#1425a) has
caused me to pause and re-try on tying it!)