Knife Identification

[effenoam]

I got this knife as gift. It looks like a SAK knockoff but I'd like to know who made it. It's hard to see, but it has a faint stamp underneath the "germany" stamp. All I can read is "en".

Thanks,

 

[jfk1110]

Probably Solingen the city where most German blades were made.for ages!!!!
Cool knife..

 

[tltt]

Precise International Co/Precise Import Co (they used both names) of Suffern, NY. They started in 1950's - early 2000's. Early big importer of Wenger SAK, Schlieper Eye Brand, Gamo Air Guns, and a few other things.

Knife is probably 50's -60's.

 

[eisman]

Knife is from after 1989, because before that it would have been marked West Germany. Most likely Wenger MFRd.

 

[John A. Larsen]

eisman, Not necessarily. I have just looked at 4 fixed blades from the 1950-1960 era, and all are marked "Solingen, Germany" or "made in Germany". One is a Fred Mac Overland, a Doppelreh (Double Deer), a Thalson, the last. a Gazelle, made by Krusius and marked "Solingen Germany British Zone. That one should be prior to or around 1956, when the "British Zone" was no longer in effect. John

 

[not2sharp]

Perhaps made around 1989. The original Solingen stamp mark on the finished blade stock was removed and instead engraved Germany to recognize the unification.

N2s

 

[tltt]

Here's some Wenger catalog sheets from the 1950's, 60's -

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My guess is they were emulating these. Note the old style can openers, no one wanted those after a certain point.

 

[tltt]

PIC, early 70's, announcing they have the Wenger account -

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New style goofy can opener, less reason to make a German copy.