All About Pocket Knives

deo-pa wrote: ↑Sun Apr 13, 2025 10:48 am The 400-year old metalworker's guild that promotes Sheffield products is called the Company of Cutlers of Hallamshire (that being the ancient name for the Sheffield area). Every year it elects a Master Cutler who is a prominent business person from among the hundreds of companies and organizations that make up the guild. That person is honored at an annual black tie banquet and is expected to spend the year promoting Sheffield and its products.

Tradition calls for the recipient to commemorate his or her election with a pocket knife, and the knife below is the Master Cutler's knife from 1950 marking the election of George Wilton Lee, who was the president of Arthur Lee & Co., the family's steel business. George Ibberson & Co. made the knife. The handles are sterling silver and are engraved with the guild's coat-of-arms and a facsimile of Lee's signature. The last photo shows Lee's portrait that hangs in Cutlers Hall in Sheffield.