In the 1961 ASMU catalog it shows that the ring ice screw is a ASMU product, 1 size. No mention of a ice screw without a ring.
What is strange is that in the 1961 REI catalog it shows the ASMU ice screw with a ring, and a similar one without the ring. And the ring version has two sizes. But the catalog lists the items as "Swiss" ice screw pitons, where ASMU is German. I thought that this could be a mistake in the catalog, but in the 1963 Sporthaus Schuster catalog, the ASMU ice screw piton is removed. So what I am saying here is, I don't think Sporthaus Schuster for the year 1962 created a second size ring ice screw piton and a ringless version as well, just to discontinue it in 1963. So where actually did these super cool ice screw pitons come from? And since ASMU doesn't show that they made a ringless version, it places the ringless version in the Unknown file listed as UNKNOWN # 19 ice screw piton. |
REI 1961 catalog
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