This nice olive-green Farmer is a special run of 50 pieces made by Victorinox in February 2013. It’s numbered on the main blade.
The color is a bit brighter than the olive-green from the earlier made olive Pioneer and First Mate with black tools.
Untill about 1999 Victorinox used a plain silver cross as logo on their Alox knives. In 2000 Victorinox changed to a new logo. It’s a curved wappen shield with silver contour with a silver cross in a red area.
Since then Victorinox produces their standard Alox model palette with silver Alox scales with the silver/red shield logo shown in the picture above. A few years ago Victorinox started producing Alox knives in many different colors. Most of these knives are special runs produced in a small quantity. Usually 50 – 100 pieces per run. They are produced mainly for collectors and knife enthusiasts.
The form of the Victorinox logo remains the same, but there are a few color variantions. Most of these special runs have the logo with silver contours and silver cross but the shield inside has the same color as the scales.
A US dealer (*) ordered some limited runs with a logo in the same color as the scales.
In January 2012 Victorinox produced the first time an Alox special run with black scales with the silver logo with red shield. Since then a few other colored Alox knives were produced with the silver logo with red area.
Another variation is a silver knive with a silver logo with grey contours.
In January 2013 Victorinox produced a few Alox models for a US dealer with copper color scales. These knives have a new logo color variation. The shield’s contour and cross have the same copper color as the scales and the shield inside is red.
I’m curious if there will be another shield color variation in the future.
Edited 30.12.2013: Some more Alox shield color variations…
(*) He doesn’t want his name published on my website.
The Alox Pruner model is a one layer knife. It carries a mainblade and a pruning blade. This knife with the light green scales is part of a special run of only 50 pieces made by Victorinox in November 2012.
This is the 5th and probably last knife of the “green pruning blade” serie.
Each knife is numbered on the pruning blade.
A very nice and elegant silver Alox Pioneer from Victorinox. It has not the usual red shield but a silver shield and the contours are a bit darker. It’s the same Victorinox logo as the silver Cadet from April 2012 has.
The main blade carries an etching with lots of “USA” and on the engraving panel on the backside scale a USA flag is printed. It’s a two color print in red and blue.
Because it’s a limited special run of 50 pieces, each knife has a serial number and the year engraved on the backside of the main blade.
A short black lanyard with the black Victorinox logo is attached to the keyring. A nice accessory.
| This brandnew Victorinox Alox knife is a new model with a blade combination, which was never produced before. I call it Electrician’s Mate. It’s basically a First Mate with electrician’s blade instead of the pruning blade or if you like, it’s an Electrician plus with marlinspike instead of the awl. |
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The knife was produced in two colors. Blue and orange. |
| The blue shade of the frontscale is pretty like the standard blue shade used for some other Alox models, while the blue color of the backside scale is a bit darker. The difference of the shades is not big, but you can see it. |
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| The blue knife fits into the blue marlinspike serie. The orange one fits into the yellow/orange serie of Electrician models with the black arrow on the back. |
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| This special run includes 50 pieces in blue and 50 pieces in orange and is made by Victorinox in January 2013. Both knives have a serial number engraved. The blue one on the mainblade and the orange one on the Electrician’s blade, exactly like the other knives from the two mentioned series. |
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