Vintage Swedish Emil Olssen pocket knife

[kwakster]

Fredrick Emil Olsson founded his firm in 1896 in Eskilstuna, Sweden (the cutlery capital of Scandinavia).
His was one of over 100 cutlery companies in Eskilstuna at the turn of the century.
The firm produced hundreds of thousands of knives until it closed it's doors in 1967.
One of it's specialties was deep etching, and this new old stock pocket knife is a nice example.

 

[kwakster]

A second Emil Olssen knife, now with advertizing:




Picture of the Elof Hansson headquarters building in 1958 next to the etching of that same building on the knife handle.
Thanks to this picture i now have an estimate of when these knives were made.

 

[Abu]

Beautiful etchings, very fine gentlemen knives, indeed!!! Worth to keep and collect.

Abu