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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mtngunr" data-source="post: 4362354" data-attributes="member: 46104">I picked up a few oddballs as I came across them. The military originals date back into late 1800s, had wood scales, then later fiber scales, and circa 1961 came out with red anodized aluminum, very pretty until someone used it and looked like crap soon after, and in 1964 went to silver since they all went silver with use.The military issue had DOM stamped on blades, the red Swiss canton cross added circa 1980. After that knife was replaced as an issue knife, the cross on scale was changed, same with checkering pattern (hard to see but compare top row of checkering on silver knife with those below it), plus blank spot for short-lived inspector stamp was deleted, and a large blank spot for personalized engraving was added. The change in rivet also pretty obvious.Folk go nuts anytime one in original style red anodize becomes available, which the red one shown is of that later rarer thing...The black one is cool, looks perfect in that color, also rare, and this one a transitional model, the blank side is the old pattern scale, but there were no more scales of old style available for opposite side and so has a new style scale and cross on that side.The single blade last one speaks for itself, and fun to show the knife, talk about color blind and how it looks purple to me, folk firmly say it is green as I close and reopen my hand and ask them are they sure, where they then doubt their own vision or sanity.To keep it on topic, will be carrying the issue knife tomorrow since it shows small signs of use on main blade.[ATTACH=full]528145[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]528146[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]528147[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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