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Hey everyone thanks for letting me join. I have a question and I hope you experts out there can give me the answer I'm looking for which at this point is any answer that is better than nothing will help. lol

I have a swiss army knife that says its a Officer Sussie and on the handle it has gold emblem with the letters G T E and three ruby looking stones under the letters I have looked and looked and can't find nothing about it. So if anyone knows anything about it please let me know. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on March 9, 2017 at 10:46

A good photo would certainly help, Tommy.

Swiss Army supplies promotional knives to countless companies.

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KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Paul S on March 9, 2017 at 17:58

There was a company called GTE that morphed into Verizon. There is a fair amount of information about it on Wikipedia. "GTE Corporation, formerly General Telephone & Electric Corporation (1955–1982),^[1] was the largest independent telephone company in the United States during the days of the Bell System. The company operated from 1926, with roots tracing further back than that, until 2000, when it merged with Bell Atlantic; the combined company took the name Verizon." Perhaps this is the same GTE on your knife. Really hard to tell.

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on March 9, 2017 at 18:14

Found this looking for information.

Doesn't say what the stones mean though.

Best guess would be for 15 years service.

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Permalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on March 9, 2017 at 18:22

This WorthPoint listing shows one with diamonds, where the second photo comes from.

http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/victorinox-officier-suisse-sw...

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 9, 2017 at 19:36

We have a sak group with some amazingly knowledgable folks you may try posting in there. Sorry I would normally link it for you but i am on my tablet. We also have a member that works for them. When i get back to the computer tomorrow i will look up his info for you. Greatknife by the way

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Permalink Reply by Tommy Marcum on March 9, 2017 at 22:31

This picture that J.J. Smith III posted is exactly what the knife looks like and thanks everyone for the informoation will look into the sites mentioned

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