Older SAK?

KeithAM

KeithAM

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Years ago my parents gave me a Victorinox SAK they found at a flea market. Unlike today's SAKs, this one has brass liners, brass pins, and what appears to be a chromed brass bail. It's two bladed, 3" closed.

When did the brass give way to aluminum?

Thanks!
 
Keith Mayton said:
Unlike today's SAKs, this one has brass liners, brass pins, and what appears to be a chromed brass bail. It's two bladed, 3" closed.
When did the brass give way to aluminum?
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1951 was when alox (aluminium) replaced nickel silver for liners.
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BUT - a possible conflict -
The bail wasn't supposed to be used until 1961.......

Current SAKs still use brass pins.

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Vincent

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Thanks Vincent! I wish I had a digital camara -- I know that would help you more.

Anyway, it makes it more fun to know it really is probably something older than, say, the 1970s or '80s.

I'm looking at it now -- what I said was brass could be tarnished nickel-silver?
 
Vincent, that scan looks like a page out of the book Swiss Army Knives: A Collector's Companion by Derek Jackson?

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