vintage cellidor photos for a change?

[Gareth]

I'm loving this thread, it's just a shame I don't have any 'vintage' to add to it.   Keep the pics coming though folks.

[ICanFixThat]

I love those Fisherman. 

Here is another quick one, picked this up on ebay a few days ago with 3 other knives for a less than 30, and one of the others was a nice Victoria executive.  I never get my good deals on ebay, but I guess there is always exceptions.

[Neil]

Champion and Champion, just to avoid confusions

[Aloxfan]

Was watching this on ebay, though I wasn't interested in bidding:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320575880271

[ICanFixThat]

Older Armee Suisse 'Huntsman' like.

[Neil]

Hoffritz / Victoria stamped Fisherman

[ICanFixThat]

Nice Fisherman!  

Is that one going on a fishing trip soon, or is that another one of your fishin' mates?


Attached is a Old Elinox that conveniently has the year 1963 etched on the blade.

[Neil]

It'll have to be off to rivers new some time soon  

Nice old economy shield too

[ICanFixThat]

I have to post one more.  I just got this today from one of our favorite Switzerland ebay sellers. The picture doesn't do this one justice.  

This is vintage, a 75mm Victoria carbon-steel single blade knife in amazing condition.  It's just a wonderful size for a pocket knife.  I don't know why, but it just feels perfect in the hand; the even the cellidor feels different for some reason.

SAK Happy Day Today!

[Neil]

   That is an oldie

[meanx]

Carbon steel blade  wow very nice

[Gareth]

That's a beauty mate.

[Jmora]

a lot of cool knives on this thread . Can someone give me some info on when victorinox went from carbon steel to stainless. For the soldier blade it was around 1924. Was it later for the non-soldier blades?

[Reinier]

Very nice, that carbon steel one!

[victor7000]

I've an old waiter.

[stressmaster5000]

Here is a strange old Victoria Classic with a rather large shield. It has the old style machined or cut type nail file and the old scissors with original single leaf spring.


The only info I could gather on the company is it might be the old UBS Bank in their original name. They have the same anniversary dates.

[ICanFixThat]

An older 'climber' configuration.

[jazzbass]

My newest "vintage" cellidor - post wartime (late 1940s) 84mm Lumberjack:

[Neil]

That looks in great shape 

[ICanFixThat]

This is a really interesting vintage Cellidor.  A Blue Angler variation with shackle.

[Herman]

A blue Angler! Waw this is nice  Btw, the others are very nice too, don't feel neglected 

[Neil]

Superb condition at that    Its a good job I just picked up a replacement keyboard

[Jack Russell]

I just have these two old cellidor left, I'm focusing on Alox at the moment.

[Neil]

  That another chuffing keyboard gone 

[ICanFixThat]

I just have these two old cellidor left, I'm focusing on Alox at the moment.

Oh VERY nice! 

Are both those 91mm?

[Jack Russell]

I just have these two old cellidor left, I'm focusing on Alox at the moment.

Oh VERY nice! 

Are both those 91mm?

The camper is 91mm the tinker is 84mm

[Jack Russell]

BTW that is the oldest box I have.
I would be interested to see what the earlier ones look like?? 

[ICanFixThat]

BTW that is the oldest box I have.
I would be interested to see what the earlier ones look like?? 

I have one or more of the same box, but I'm not sure if I have any box earlier.  One day soon I hope to have a page on the wiki with the different boxes from different markets.

My stag champion model '246fmaU HH' came in such a box.  Is your box for the Tinker or the Camper?

It's possible some of the bigger boxes, that have the paper inserts to hold the knives might be earlier, or used at the same time, I'm not sure.  I think they often had more than 1 box style going so again it might be hard to put a precise date on the packaging.  Based on what we know about the model numbers and what I've seen stampted on the boxes I'd say that's a pretty earlier one. I have a couple Automobile knives in larger boxes that use the 8134ma type of numbering, and that's faily old too.  Definetly the larger boxes with the very pale green paper inserts to hold the knife are quite old as well.

[Sazabi]

How old are the boxes with the pale green paper inserts?  The reason why I ask is because all of the Solos, Farmers, and Pioneers I have/had came with it, but they had checkered old alox scales; did the 93mm alox line not come in ribbed versions?

[jazzbass]

BTW that is the oldest box I have.
I would be interested to see what the earlier ones look like?? 

That box is a typical late 1950s/early 1960s box, which goes well with that Tinker which looks to be from about 1960-1961. I have Master Craftsman from the same era (large awl, no rivets) but a couple years older and it came in the exact same box.

The oldest box I've seen was on eBay in an auction I didn't win. It was for a Fisherman from the 1952-1958 era. The box is similar to one you show here, with a couple minor differences. Based on the stampings on the Fisherman, it was made in the later part of the 52-58 time period: