Going back to the question of how a Tiger TM could appear that only has the word 'Tiger' and not the pictured cat on it.
There was a dagger for sale on a web site that has the words t the mark seemingly double stamped while the cat itself is only stamped once with no doubling of the lines. This dagger is no longer there so I cannot give you a link to it.
If we look at dress bayonets produced by Tiger, we will find that they are one of the few makers who put a mark on both sides of the blade, the cat on one side and the words on the other. This shows that Tiger had two types of their maker mark stamps, one with the cat and the words in some configuration (see the varieties above) and the other set with separate stamps for the parts of the mark.
So, between the two daggers pictured here, with missing cats and the one pictured for sale with a doubling of the words, I think that we can assume that, in certain cases, the wrong stamp, the one for bayonets, may have been inadvertently used on these daggers.
For your information, here are some shots of bayonets with Tiger markings on both sides of the blade.
John
