The Sunday Picture Show (December 17th, 2023)

Thanks for hosting the SPS Roger!

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SwissBucks
This is my display case with most of the SwissBuck models.
This display is similar to the original SwissBuck counter display, but I made it larger to fit all models.
Nice, I should do a display box also. I think the only one I am missing is the Attache.
I acquired this plastic stand in a box of Buck stuff. I had it for years before I knew what it was for.

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Love this thread, great pics guys!

But I feel I must correct something most folks take for granted, the Wright brothers did an awesome thing, all credit to them, but they weren't the first to make a powered flight (they were just really smart about advertising it and procuring witnesses). There were at least 3 previous that we know about, the first one being designed and built by Hiram Maxim, the famous gun inventor who created the Maxim machine gun. It was a monster, with a 100 ft wingspan, powered by two 180 hp steam engines and two 18 ft propellers in 1894. It got up just over 40 miles an hour and lifted off the track it was on, and flew some 200 feet before coming down.

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Another was the Ezekiel airship, built by Burrell Cannon and flown in 1902 and unfortunately destroyed in a rail accident on it's way to the World's Fair. This one had a gas engine.

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Cool stuff! Anyhoo, pics, this is my humble submission, my dedicated tackle-box knife, the ever-so-handy Buck 857:

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