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Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:33 pm**

Anyone know about the James Barber knives? I have a pen knife stamped AKA James Barber Sheffield England. Thanks

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2010 1:50 pm**

Price and Zalesky list it as c.1870 - 1880's. Could the AKA actually read Era?

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:03 pm**

Thanks TJ

it reads ERA Sorry

Looks like factory edge maybe ivory scales.

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2010 4:13 pm**

I'm afraid that that is all the information the book gives except to give it a 2-star rating as far as collectibility. Rating goes from 1 - 4 stars.

Posted: **Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:55 pm**

Thanks again

Posted: **Sun Feb 28, 2010 3:08 pm**

James Barber was a cutler in Sheffield back in the mid 1800s. The name and era trademark were acquired by Thomas Ellin and then Joseph Elliot. With England stamped, the knife was made 1891 or thereafter, likely by one of the companies previously mentioned. Any chance of a photo please?

s-k

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