Victorinox symbol Question

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I picked up a knife at a flea market. The blades are clearly labeled Victorinox (looks like a bantam), but the symbol on the handle isn't the victorinox symbol. Either it's an old Victorinox symbol, or someone went through the trouble of changing the handle cover. Did Victorinox change it's symbol?
 
what does the symbol look like? Victorinox's symbol is the pointed bottom crest with the cross in it, but there is also another vendor who makes 'real' swiss army knives and they are Wenger, who have instead a cross inside a square crest. i don't know if that helped, maybe i'm just pointing out the obvious, but SAK are so many, knockoffs and wannabees are everywhere.

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I know Wenger will make special runs for big businesses and other knife makers, Vic may do this as well.

I have a SwissBuck it's a Buck knife, Made by Wenger.
So it say Wenger on the blade but Buck on the handle.
 
The cross changed a very little bit in the long time since victorinox exist. And the knives with alox-scales have not the same cross like the knives with cellidor-scales.
The only sign at the Victorinox SAK´s that you can be sure it is a Original Victorinox Swiss Army Knife is the wroten "Victorinox Switzerland" on the blade.
 
I too have seen the knives that you are talking about at a local gunshow. The handles have a different shield, the blades are marked Victorinox and all of the tools look exactly the same as the Vics with the normal shield. The ones that I saw with the different shield were cheaper. For instance, the regular Recruit was ~$14 and the other one with the same four implements was about ~$11. I don't know if they had toothpick/tweezers though.
 
APS. sounds like the same thing. The blades are true vics with "Victorinxo Switzerland" and Officier Suisse" on them, but the handle symbol is a cross in a 3 sided shield. It's like a bantam without the toothpick and tweezers. I just wanted to find out if everything on it is original, or why the symbol is different.
 
Are the handles the regular shiny plastic or are they a lightly textured nylon? If they're the nylon ones, then the knives are the economy or matt models. Quality is the same but I guess the nylon handles are cheaper. I have an economy Spartan, I'll look at the shield tonight. I like the economy knives. The textured handles are non-slipping and the nylon doesn't scratch as bad as the ceiilidor.
 
The handle is cellidor(sp). I have an economy tinker, and I also like the nylon. It maintains it's new look better, and the blades seem to be the same as the others.
 
I looked at all of my SAKs last night. None of them had the shield that you are referring to and I have knives from the past 4 decades. Even the older catalogs didn't show it. Hmmm...
 
I called Victorinox.
The sign you described was the about 20 years old sign of the economy sak´s. You have an original.

The different between the normal and the economy is that the layers between the blades are not hardened. Thats the reason why the economy´s are cheaper.
 
I wonder what sort of performance or durability difference there would be between hardened liners and non-hardened liners? Has anyone tried a normal and an economy SAK side by side to test this?
 
Thanx for the info and effort Pizzini. Good to know. 20 plus years. Im starting to like these vics!
 
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