**Jeroen's Victorinox blog**: COLLECTION

**108 mm knives**

German Army knife *0.8770.04*

Victorinox Solo / Adventurer 108 mm *0.87 10*

Victorinox Solo plus 108 mm

Victorinox Pathfinder / Safari Pathfinder

Victorinox Hunter 108 mm / Safari Hunter *0.87 80*

**91 mm knives**

Michel Jordi line

**VINTAGE knives**

My "Vintage" collection anno 10/2013. This is my favorite part in collecting Victorinox knives. If you spot an old one on a market or Ebay you immediately start age dating the knife, but you never know what price they'll ask or if there are other collectors interested. Even knives in a bad condition or with small defects are a treat. Sometimes I need to remind myself that I have a wife waiting for me, because I always loose track of time when I start cleaning an old one...

Here's a view on my collection anno february 2013. I try to display every knife as good as I can, but sometimes you just need more space. The room is getting crowded and this might mean that I have to sell the daggers and folders to expand my Victorinox collection. I'll never buy something to leave it in a drawer... I want to enjoy my collection when I'm in the room and when we have visitors, they're always amazed by the sheer beauty of these knives. A lot of them cary one now, thanks to my "pursuasive" character. :)

The history in a nutshell...

The company was founded in 1884. Since 1891, the company has delivered knives to the Swiss army. Their famous emblem—a cross in a shield—has been used by Victorinox since 1909. That year, the mother of founder Karl Elsener died and he named the company "Victoria" in her honour. In 1921, with the introduction of "inox" into their products, the brand and name of the company became the present "Victorinox" ("Victoria"+"Inox").

Additionally, Victorinox claims never to have had to fire or make redundant an employee for economic reasons. To do this they set aside profits during boom periods to supplement recessionary periods, as well as temporarily contracting employees to other companies as outsourced labour during recessions.

In 2006 the company had a workforce of 900 employees and produced about 34,000 Swiss Army knives, 38,000 multi-tools, and 30,000 household, kitchen, and knives per workday. Approximately 90 percent of its production is exported, to more than 100 countries.

Thanks to Wikipedia!

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