Sheffield Knives - Butcher and Skinning

[wackyd]

Hello again folks, I am STILL sorting things I inherited from my grandfather and today documented the collection of fixed blade Sheffield knives.

I will attach pictures to follow, but there are knives from Taylor Eye Witness, Wade & Butcher, I. Wilson, Lantham & Owen, Humphries & Co., and Johnson's.

Anyone know anything about these? Should I post them or link to them somewhere else?

A co-worker is interested in one or two curved skinners, and partially I want to make sure I am not parting with a golden goose as it were.


Thanks as always!


Daniel

[wackyd]

More!

[wackyd]

Even more!

[wackyd]

Still more!

[wackyd]

And more!

[wackyd]

And even more!

[wackyd]

And the last.

[montemojo]

Great looking bunch you have there. I'll be watching for more of your collection.


Monte

[FRJ]

I wouldn't be in a hurry to get rid of any of those.

[knife7knut]

Marvelous assemblage of early kitchen knives! The "Green River" stamping was an allusion to the knives made by the John Russell Co .of Southbridge Massachusetts. As the story goes when the knives were used as a defensive measure it would be stuck into an opponent "up to Green River" or all the way to the stamping on the knife.
I knew that English makers copied this slogan but never realized there were so many that did so. It is hard to date kitchen knives but I would venture that many of these were made before 1900 and the fact that you still have the boxes for them(which can be worth more than the contents)is even more amazing.
Hopefully smiling-knife(a member on here from UK) will see this post and chime in;I'm sure he would love to see these.

[smiling-knife]

That's a nice collection of Sheffield knives. They have England stamped so made 1891 or thereafter. The Wade and Butcher knife has a stainless steel blade so 1920s or later. The Taylor Eyewitness Green River knife looks like it is relatively recent 1980s. The first Taylor looks like it has a British Patent number 829356 which was registered in 1938 but could be made anytime thereafter. Latham and Owen, maker of the Sergant knife, started in 1921. That's all for now.

[wackyd]

That's a nice collection of Sheffield knives. They have England stamped so made 1891 or thereafter. The Wade and Butcher knife has a stainless steel blade so 1920s or later. The Taylor Eyewitness Green River knife looks like it is relatively recent 1980s. The first Taylor looks like it has a British Patent number 829356 which was registered in 1938 but could be made anytime thereafter. Latham and Owen, maker of the Sergant knife, started in 1921. That's all for now.

Thanks!

I had hoped there would be some nuance of small rivet/big rivet on the Wilson knives, but it looks like both styles were offered in similar knives at the same time. Is Sycamore St vs. Ex Sycamore street significant to a date or time period?

[smiling-knife]

You're welcome. Here's a John Wilson advertisement circa 1919. At some point after this it appears that the company moved to Sylvester Street. I don't know when that was at the moment.

[wackyd]

http://www.kitchenknifeforums.com/showt ... Steel-quot
http://www.britishblades.com/forums/sho ... nformation

So does the closing of Sycamore coinciding with the end of WWII seem plausible?

The challenge I take is that how many blades were made and stored at a time, or lost in a warehouse or storage, and only put to market years later.

So right back to the challenges of dating standard kitchen designs, right?


Anything in my pile special or personal to anyone?

I'm kind of big on using the quality items that came before me - so if my friend really will use one of the skinners, I am inclined to have it go to work. I just don't want to break any history.