I'm not too sure that it is a 'previous' design.....I have a tan knife with that style logo, and as I recall, the tan colored knifes are a relatively recent product from Glock. I also have a tan one with the regular logo.
I'm wondering if maybe Glock didn't contract with another firm to make some knives for them, but you'd still expect them to get the logo 'right'. :dunno:
The earliest piece of Glock literature (US market) (EDIT: That *I* have) does depict the "GLOCK 78 combat knife & bayonet" as well as the "GLOCK 81 survival knife with saw". Both pictured have the circular Glock logo. Both are OD color. One is mounted to the barrel of a Steyr AUG. There is no mention of either tan or black color options.
Anyway, the tan colored 81 you have with the circular logo makes me wonder...but as anal as Gaston seems to be I cannot understand why it would exist.
But we know know that black, OD and tan model 81's exist with the circular logo.
Yeah, it's apparent that they are selling (or at least have sold) products with two different logo's on them, but it doesn't make much sense.
Maybe it is an older design that's still in an old mold that they still use, no doubt the molds are spendy. If it is, I would expect it to be from the time prior to their making of guns as I don't recall ever seeing the round logo anywhere but on the knives.
It certainly appears to have the round logo on it huh? It would be interesting to know why....good old German practicality I'd suspect, 'it still works, we'll still use it'.
Got some new info. I'll have a topic specific pic to go with this.
It seems that the tan field knives were introduced around 1990/1991. The original Glock designator for the tan color was "Desert Storm" and the circular logo was used.
The reason the tan knives were originally called "Desert Storm" is because they were originally made for the Desert Storm Commemorative cased sets. The first 25 or so Desert Storm Commemoratives came in a glass-lid wood display box that had etching on the lid, and a place inside for both the pistol and the Tan Knife. This also means they were introduced in the Summer of 1991 when the Desert Storm Commemorative came out.
Of course, there was no sense in making a run of 25 knives of that color, and so they put the others out on the market. There was a time when the tan ones were no longer available (I know because that was when I decided I needed one, and a call direct to Glock said they were no longer available), but then they brought them back out, and they're available once again.
If anyone has a first generation Tan Field Knife (either model, but I'd prefer the one with serrations) they'd like to sell, please PM me.
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