Fisherman inlay variations

[Herman]

When looking closefully at two of my knifes, a Fisherman and an Original Angler, I noticed the fish inlays are not identical. It's not the best pic, but it does show some details. Like the eye is round in one and not in the other, 4 thick lines in the tail vs 5 thin in the other...  Are there more variations of fish inlays? Btw, I do have a nickel silver one too, but I don't regard it as a variation, it's identical to the one on the right. Does anyone have more info on this? 

[J Mackrel Jones]

Never noticed these before - also the closed-circle eye vs open-circle, curved line below head and no curved line...
Are you a numismatist, Brother?

[captain spaulding]

Are you a numismatist, Brother?

I bet he is noticing things like that.

[jazzbass]

I've noticed this before. Grand Prix inlays exhibit the same - slightly different designs. The older ones (nickel-silver based) tend to have finer detail, while the later stainless steel inlays have somewhat simpler with less detail. I've always guess that it was a by-product of the material and how it was inlaid.

One thing I have noticed, though, is that in the mid-70s Victorinox seems to have started experimenting with stainless steel inlays, and used the same inlay patterns as the nickel-silver versions. So there are some ss inlays that have the finer detail of the ns versions. When the transition to ss inlays happened for good in the early 1980s, the newer, simpler versions were the norm.

[Herman]

Thanks for the info jazzbass!