Saks from your place

Sneider · **on:** May 21, 2020, 09:48:29 PM

My place is winterthur. I live here like my grandparents and parents, I was born here and I love this city.
As a knife collector, it is a particular pleasure for me to collect knives with a visible reference to winterthur.

Other place knife collections here?

Sos24 · **Reply #1 on:** May 21, 2020, 11:08:24 PM

Those are some real nice SAKs.

39hotrod · **Reply #2 on:** May 21, 2020, 11:13:51 PM

Reinier · **Reply #3 on:** May 22, 2020, 08:54:02 AM

Those are very nice Sneider. Especially the vintage cellidor ones

I've never seen any SAKs from the places where I was born or where I lived, studied or went to college

Mechanickal · **Reply #4 on:** May 22, 2020, 09:05:43 AM

That's cool!

I'm in the same boat as Reinier.
Knives just aren't in our populations DNA...

jnoxyd · **Reply #5 on:** May 22, 2020, 11:04:32 AM

Quote from: Sneider on May 21, 2020, 09:48:29 PM

My place is winterthur. I live here like my grandparents and parents, I was born here and I love this city.
As a knife collector, it is a particular pleasure for me to collect knives with a visible reference to winterthur.

One more Winterthur knife:

xfile · **Reply #6 on:** May 22, 2020, 01:16:35 PM

The city of love is engraved on the SAK, that's great!

aerojet · **Reply #7 on:** May 22, 2020, 04:57:07 PM

Very nice. I wish there were more from other countries.

Sneider · **Reply #8 on:** May 22, 2020, 05:45:01 PM

Hi guys, thank you for your nice comments.

It is unfortunate that there are so few souvenir SAKs from other locations, or also advertising knifes with the location of the company. On the other hand, some countries have their own knife manufacturers that they prefer, or cheap imported goods. If the swiss army knight rules allow it, you can also show other pocket knives with location reference in this thread, I would be happy.

@jnoxyd: Nice piece, I'm still missing that.

Seems to be a thermal print with ink filling. The motive could be from the "Schleiferei Winterthur", with a grinding wheel in the logo.

Quote from: aerojet on May 22, 2020, 04:57:07 PM

... I wish there were more from other countries.

1000% my opinion!

pfrsantos · **Reply #9 on:** May 22, 2020, 05:50:54 PM

There's a few from Portugal, but despite showing images that reference a specific city, they just have Portugal written in the scales.

SirVicaLot · **Reply #10 on:** May 22, 2020, 06:52:43 PM

Unfortunately I don’t have any either.

There is a company in Germany though, that prints whatever picture you want on the scales. Was thinking about doing that when Covid is over, and have them put the Coat of Arms of my city of birth on.

Sneider · **Reply #11 on:** May 22, 2020, 08:10:05 PM

@pfrsantos: Country knifes? Also cool!

There was once a classic series with flags from many countries...

Quote from: SirVicaLot on May 22, 2020, 06:52:43 PM

Unfortunately I don’t have any either.

There is a company in Germany though, that prints whatever picture you want on the scales. Was thinking about doing that when Covid is over, and have them put the Coat of Arms of my city of birth on.

Yes, I have seen such knives with photo prints. Look nice. If you would like such a knife from your city, why not?

Sneider · **Reply #12 on:** May 22, 2020, 08:14:06 PM

There is also this "Place to be" series, in addition to many Swiss places I have also seen Los Angeles, London, Berlin.
https://www.victorinox.com/ch/de/„Place-to-Be“-Messer/cms/place-to-be-knives

Outside of Europe, I only have these two:

And from european countries, except Switzerland, these few:

Old Seaman · **Reply #13 on:** May 22, 2020, 10:43:01 PM

That's special serial for Ukraine "Ukrainian Cities". And one of them is my town Odessa. Odessa is a resort city on the Black Sea.

Old Seaman · **Reply #14 on:** May 22, 2020, 10:45:43 PM

Old Seaman · **Reply #15 on:** May 22, 2020, 10:46:11 PM

jnoxyd · **Reply #16 on:** May 23, 2020, 10:29:41 AM

@ Sneider: do you need this one? I know what is incomplete series. We can trade for something

jnoxyd · **Reply #17 on:** May 23, 2020, 10:36:18 AM

Some Middle East knives

pfrsantos · **Reply #18 on:** May 23, 2020, 07:53:58 PM

Quote from: Sneider on May 22, 2020, 08:10:05 PM

@pfrsantos: Country knifes? Also cool! There was once a classic series with flags from many countries...

Yes, I have seen such knives with photo prints. Look nice. If you would like such a knife from your city, why not?

Here they are: Classic with the flag (awlso this one had a special edition, with a reference to Euro 2016 in the back scale) and Spartans with images from Lisboa (tram), Barcelos (represented by Barcelo's ~~cock~~ rooster) and the more generic portuguese tiles, found in many cities from north to south.

Sneider · **Reply #19 on:** May 23, 2020, 08:30:20 PM

@Old Seaman: Very nice Odessa knife. White on black looks good, thanks for showing.

Sneider · **Reply #20 on:** May 23, 2020, 08:33:54 PM

@jnoxyd. Nice group, scales like this are very rare to see here. Is the inlay on the far left nickel silver? Seems so yellowish.
Thanks for showing here!

Sneider · **Reply #21 on:** May 23, 2020, 08:39:32 PM

@pfrsantos:
Very nice, thanks for showing here.

I am not that competent with celidor, do you know whether the photo prints "original" from Victorinox or a local one?

Reinier · **Reply #22 on:** May 23, 2020, 09:10:41 PM

Delft Blue Climber. There is an Amsterdam version too and one with tulips.
Because The Netherlands equals Amsterdam, tulips and Delft Blue

Sneider · **Reply #23 on:** May 23, 2020, 10:40:18 PM

Quote from: Reinier on May 23, 2020, 09:10:41 PM

...
Because The Netherlands equals Amsterdam, tulips and Delft Blue
...

Why is there more?

Switzerland equals chocolate and cheese...Wait, wait, wait; and SAKs!

Sorry, just kidding.

Thanks for showing here.

The prints seem to be from the same printer as the Portugal knives from pfrsantos. Do you know if these prints are made by Victorinox itself?

jnoxyd · **Reply #24 on:** May 24, 2020, 03:13:45 PM

Quote from: Sneider on May 23, 2020, 08:33:54 PM

@jnoxyd. Nice group, scales like this are very rare to see here. Is the inlay on the far left nickel silver? Seems so yellowish.
Thanks for showing here!

Wenger on the left has hot foil stamping and Victorinox has nice steel inlay

jnoxyd · **Reply #25 on:** May 24, 2020, 03:20:20 PM

One more Place knife from New York. It has an interesting story behind: in 2016 Victorinox started artists competition for better knife design for USA knife. Young artist won and got $5000 from Victorinox.

Reinier · **Reply #26 on:** May 24, 2020, 03:31:14 PM

Quote from: Sneider on May 23, 2020, 10:40:18 PM

Why is there more?
Switzerland equals chocolate and cheese...Wait, wait, wait; and SAKs!

Sorry, just kidding.
Thanks for showing here.
The prints seem to be from the same printer as the Portugal knives from pfrsantos. Do you know if these prints are made by Victorinox itself?

And watches, and Jojo Mayer, my favorite drummer

I'm pretty sure those are printed by Victorinox. The design is identical to the ones with Swiss places, Vienna, Paris, etc. with the curved name etc.

pfrsantos · **Reply #27 on:** May 24, 2020, 08:16:36 PM

Quote from: Reinier on May 24, 2020, 03:31:14 PM

And watches, and Jojo Mayer, my favorite drummer

I'm pretty sure those are printed by Victorinox. The design is identical to the ones with Swiss places, Vienna, Paris, etc. with the curved name etc.

+1

Different orientation, though...

I think they have a template for the country related images. Each country provides images and Victorinox prints the scales.

Reinier · **Reply #28 on:** May 24, 2020, 08:34:20 PM

Hah, stupid me. You're right.

Sneider · **Reply #29 on:** May 24, 2020, 09:33:32 PM

@ jnoxyd: Aha, that's called foil stamp, learned something again.
Very special design, the NYC Climber. Thank you!

@ Reinier: You know Jojo Mayer?

@Reinier and pfrsantos: then at least those with the uniform design will be printed by Victorinox. Thank you both

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