vintage cellidor photos for a change?

[ICanFixThat]

...And just to keep this Thread on Topic, a little cross-post.  There were a few nice ones posted in 'Lastest SAK...' thread that should be posted here.

[KTO]

Thx for the welcome, sorry for posting here, but that is beeing "vintage" model...
I will repost it in the proposed topic

[J Mackrel Jones]

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!

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Carbon steel with cellidor or even celluloid scales is unusual:  Stainless in common use in the early 1920s but plastic scales on SAKs only as of 1937.

"a Victorinox Officer model 1937 has brass
divider and liners (and celluloid scales); the black-handled pen knife in the upper photo on page 40 (celluloid scales? and is that bakelite on the carbon-steel pruner?) has
liners and blades of carbon steel, with a 1940s tang stamp: Victorinox used
non-stainless steel on some worker’s knives into the 1950s, but only “in the
beginning were used iron liners” (Urs Wyss, Victorinox)."


from The SAK Owner's Manual, 2011

[J Mackrel Jones]

Another photo from Young's book:

[Waterlander]

pic 1: Elinox Lumberjack and Elsener 1940

pic 2: Victoria Hoffritz Super Tinker 91mm

pic 3: Armee Suisse (Major Geneve) Woodsman 84mm

Obviously the Armee Suisse is missing the original celidor scales (they cracked).
This Vic belonged to my grandfather. Back in the days when I did not know better,
I made a huge error by glueing the kingwood on...

Frank
 

[Waterlander]

they're all great, even a small bail on the classic, that looks cool. I always thought that cellidor doesn't age that well, looking at my own newer SAKs, but it still looks great on those old ones.

I'll have to track down some of this stuff for myself some day.

That is not a Classic, its an Executive. Still very rare with a bail though. I took some close ups of the bail end as compared to another Executive without a bail.

Nowadays the keyring sits on the opposite top end site, why did Vic ever changed that position, I wonder?

Perhaps because I'm an old fart, but I really like the bailers (and hollow rivets).

Anyway, you have a fine collection Executive's, very cool mate!!

Over the years I've owned some fine Swiss Army Knives, but if I could only take one
it would be without a doubt a victoria executive. O well, one day in my life I hope to find such a beauty..

Frank