Please help me identify this Victorinox I found in a flea market.

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alexdumitrache

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I really don`t know much about it besides the fact that it is not a recent make and I never saw markings like this on any of the SAK I ever saw.
So here are some photos hope somebody can tell me a bit about it like the model or year (only thing I could find were some obscure photos on pinterest dating the scale stamp between 1965-1974 ).

Thank you guys in advance...:))
P.S: The phillips screw driver has a different form and has a slit right in the middle ...can someone illuminate me in that regard too.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1979808418914362&set=pcb.1979808605581010&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1979808438914360&set=pcb.1979808605581010&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1979808425581028&set=pcb.1979808605581010&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1979808512247686&set=pcb.1979808605581010&type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1979808542247683&set=pcb.1979808605581010&type=3&theater
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Model is a Tinker, fairly old (they stopped using that quarter round Phillips quite a while back). Never been real sure what the slit in the end is actually for, but I've used it to twist wire and also to hold a strip of emery cloth to sand the inside of copper tubing fittings before sweating them together. According to Sakwiki, it is a can key, which I'm old enough to understand, but I don't recall seeing a can with the tear strip for opening since the 70's, so that '65 to '75 timeframe is probably correct. I've never seen a shield like that. Nice find!
 
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That same timeline shows the square Phillips in place of the corkscrew debuted in 1952. So probably not pre-WW2.
 
Victorinox instruction on using the can key:

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Sardines, herring, kipper snacks, corned beef, Spam®, ham, tennis balls, coffee — I opened hundreds of coffee cans for my mom — what a pain! Key cans are still with us but thank god they are slowly fading into the past with judicial torture and crusades. Corned beef from Brazil is still packed in key cans. Talk about retro: Brazilian meat packing is right out of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, and five Caribbean nations have banned Brazilian corned beef.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/More-Caribbean-countries-ban-corned-beef-from-Brazil_93259

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Thank you all for shedding some light into the matter so looking at what I found and reading all of your findings I can safely deduct that I have stumbled upon a 1957 Victorinox Tinker. Facts are the scale stamp is dated between 1957-1974 but the tweezers weren`t introduced until 1957 an this model does not have them ...anyway great find , rare and interesting ...thank you for your answers and work .
 
Yep. They did. Never hurts to have an extra key though.
Sometimes the younger brothers were known to take them off and lose them.
 
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