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Amefa Dutch Army Knife - KL70

Victorinox and Amefa DAKs

Here are a couple of Dutch Army Knives. The brown one is made by Amefa (the Apeldoornse MEssenFAbriek or knife factory of Apeldoorn). It’s in pretty bad shape, but hey, it’s 41 years old :) The brass liners look good though. Real nail breaker this one. The KL 83 one is made by Victorinox. It

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Victorinox Elsener Soldier's knife

Elsener Soldier’s knife

This is a Soldier, made by Elsener (which was renamed Victorinox AG later on). The 1891 model of the soldier’s knife was 100mm in length and had wooden handles. The redesigned model 1951 was slightly smaller (93mm) and had brown fiber scales. The one in the picture has fiber scales but measures 100mm. Also, there

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