After a bit of a dry spell, I’ve picked up some nice stuff for the collection. Most of these are from gun shows, with a few from other sources...
Jungfrau – Top of the World – Sportsman
Woodsman 236u, an early variant of the Huntsman. C. 1966-69.
The modern – though discontinued – version of the Woodsman (an Explorer + wood saw).
Soldier 1961s from 1973, 1975, 1976, 1988.
A Spartan for the Matterhorn Zermatt Bergbahnen, the railway and “largest independent cable car company in Switzerland.”
A Spartan for the Brienz Rothorn Bahn railway, and sold in the BRB gift shop as Model 1892.
A promo Spartan for Restaurant eCHo, a Zürich based restaurant that specializes in traditional Swiss cuisine.
Jungfrau Huntsman.
A Hoffritz Climber from c. 1976-82 with a Hoffritz inlay and tang stamp.
Very excited to find a Soldier 1961 from my birth year – 1967!
A Tourist with a Kværner inlay on the top scale. Kværner was a Norwegian engineering and construction services company that existed between 1853 and 2005. No key ring or tw/tp, which I believe is common on promotional knives?
A Spartan without a key ring (not a standard since it doesn’t have tw/tp). Probably a custom for the client? Founded in 1788, Reishauer is a Swiss machine tool builder based in Wallisellen (canton of Zurich), which manufactures gear grinding machines.
A mid-1980s Tourist for Büchi, the Swiss manufacturer of laboratory equipment.
Marlboro Troubleshooter and a promo Mountaineer for the discount cigarette brand Basic.
Beijing Opera Mask Spartan, c. 2009.
Rally for Travel Swi+zerland, a “multi-faceted campaign from the Swiss Travel System AG, a Zurich-based marketing company co-founded in 2011 by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), Switzerland Tourism and five private railway companies. Its mission is the joint worldwide marketing of Switzerland’s comprehensive public transport network.”
Commemorative 2018 Karl Elsener Huntsman with 20 franc silver coin (with thanks to @VSAKCS ).
EcoLine Climber, Economy Spartan, Bayern-Bavaria Spartan, and a Tourist with “Squirrel” engraved on the bottom scale (dealer has been trying to sell the TSA knife for a couple years, and at the last gun show he threw it in for free. I really just like the Squirrel engraving).
I think I have a problem. Maybe this will help...
