Quote Originally Posted by cajunscot
Very good, sir! I do appreciate you posting that! I suspected that the sgain dubh in question was from the South African (Boer) War, and not the Crimean War, as one vendor claimed. The original Swiss Army Knives issued to the Swiss Army were introduced in the 1890's, so the timeframe is correct.

Once again, many thanks for posting!

Cheers,

Todd

Interesting, the original Swiss Army knife is from the 1890's but the multi-tool Sgian Dubh has silver hallmarks from 1874. Yet another invention that came from the Scots but for which the credit has wrongfully been claimed by another group, in this case the Swiss.