If you're like me, chances are you've found yourself staring puzzled at your Minichamp or Executive, thinking: Why an orange peeler? Who on Earth (or in Ibach, Switzerland, actually) would come up with the idea to add such a bizzarre tool to a pocket knife? I know that on the 58mm line it was originally intended as a cut&pick blade, but the point still stands.
Well, I learned today that some pocket knives form the late 1800s or the beginning of the 1900s did indeed feature a similar implement. Below is an example of a knife manufactured in Sheffield, England. That specific orange peeler blade was apparently a registered design in England in 1920. Picture stolen from courtesy of eBay Canada, where the knife is currently being sold on (no affiliation with the seller).
I thought this could be of interest here, and a proof that the Swiss weren't all that crazy, after all.