Too Good To Be True?

[ColoSwiss]

Not a Vic or Wenger, but interesting. The name is on the blade where a retailer's name often is, and isn't on my list of old Swiss Army knife makers. The pins stand proud. Everything just looks too good, like its been heavily polished.

Karl

http://www.ebay.com/itm/170753598162?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_1334

[MirrorEdge]

Not a Vic or Wenger, but interesting. The name is on the blade where a retailer's name often is, and isn't on my list of old Swiss Army knife makers. The pins stand proud. Everything just looks too good, like its been heavily polished.

Karl

http://www.ebay.com/itm/170753598162?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_500wt_1334

Maybe they wanted to write (ELSENER) but they wrote (ELEULER) as a typo mistake 

But I don't think so

[Reinier]

It was probably owned by E.L. Euler...

[user24]

Maybe they wanted to write (ELSENER) but they wrote (ELEULER) as a typo mistake 

But I don't think so

Me neither: http://imgur.com/CofRb

Unless it was a factory mistake  unlikely...

[Reinier]

No way that it's a typo. Euler is a pretty common name. The Seven Bridges of Königsberg, anyone?

[J Mackrel Jones]

Looks like the high chrome content of early stainless steel, especially German. The scissors is a of a style made in Germany at that time.  There is a Euler shop selling Victorinox knives in Remsheid, Germany today.  But Zurich ?  My bet would be that this is a knife made in Germany in the 1920s for sale in a Euler cutlery shop in Zurich, Switzerland, to compete with the Victorinox Officer's Knife of that time.   Nice knife, but priced high don't you think ?

[ColoSwiss]

Looks like the high chrome content of early stainless steel, especially German. The scissors is a of a style made in Germany at that time.  There is a Euler shop selling Victorinox knives in Remsheid, Germany today.  But Zurich ?  My bet would be that this is a knife made in Germany in the 1920s for sale in a Euler cutlery shop in Zurich, Switzerland, to compete with the Victorinox Officer's Knife of that time.   Nice knife, but priced high don't you think ?

Thanks for the info. As for the knife, yes, definitely pricey.

Karl

[jazzbass]

Looks like the high chrome content of early stainless steel, especially German. The scissors is a of a style made in Germany at that time.

Interesting - these are the type of scissors I've seen in several clones before. The fact that the scissors in my early Hunstman (posted in the other thread) were more Victorinox-like was one of the things that had me hoping the knife was real.

[Threeme2189]

He buffed the smurf out of that thing!

[stressmaster5000]

You know after looking this thing over pretty carefully I have some things about it that makes me think rebuild or MOD. The scales look near perfect which is very hard to find in that type and age. The pins ALL sit high on the scales, not flush. The wood saw and scissors both make me think maybe not right for the age of the knife.

[jaydar]

I have the same knife although mine is stamped W Renz St Gallen

Its a shiny knife (well mine is unpolished but you can see it will polish up nicely

my scales are in the same condition but the pins are also proud

Happy with your assessment that it could be german but I would guess at the stamp being a retailer

It is a very well made knife and the scissors are great, as for the price I think it will struggle without a makers mark

[ICanFixThat]

It was probably owned by E.L. Euler...

+1

Looks like the high chrome content of early stainless steel, especially German. The scissors is a of a style made in Germany at that time.

+1

The wood saw and scissors both make me think maybe not right for the age of the knife.

I agree they look weird, but I think if it's a german knife they had access to the other tools at the time from the Swiss Army spec. and local present or past military supliers, but added these two tools from their own design and manufacturing process.