Antique Knives Made In England

[knife7knut]

A few more:
#1 Pribyl Bros. India Steel pearl handles
#2 Prolific H.Bernascone & Sons ivory tuxedo.
#3 Repeat Needham Bros. advertising Hope's Windows.
#4 Repeat Needham Bros. with pearl handles and an ivory blade! Wish it was in better shape.
#5 Richard's Lamppost with engine turned handles.
#6 Richard's miniature 3 blade with an RCMP mountie on the handle.
#7 Richard's Sheffield with a 1948 farthing in the handle.
#8 Stephenson & Wilson Sheffield metal handles.
#9Thomas Turner & Son with engine turned handles.
#10 Thomas Turner & Son advertising Reckitt & Sons Ltd. on one side & Zebo Grate Polish(?)on the other

[knife7knut]

A few more and a few fixed blades.
#1 Unwin & Rodgers ivory handles with a secondary blade that is a mechanical pencil circa 1850's
#2 Westby,Levick & Sons tortoise shell handled smoker's knife with cigar cutter and fork.
#3 William Greaves folding dirk in relic condition.
#4 Wilson Bros. pearl handled knife and button hook.
#5 Alfred Williams small dagger an sheath.
#6 Cambridge Cutlery Bowie hunter.
#7 Cogswell & Harrison gun makers London W1 stag handled dagger.
#8 Set of table knives etched,"Corporate Mark Sheffield England with ivoroid handles.
#9 Set of Dinkee small table knives.
#10 Dinkee small knife with sheath.

[knife7knut]

Mo' fixed blades.
#1 Set of Francis Howard Aberdeen Works table knives.
#2 Bowie knife by Fred James;a former Wostenholm employee.
#3 A really weird Harrison Bros. & Howson fixed blade.
#4 Set of 6 Sheffield made steak knives with faux pearl handles and fileworked blades made for Jordan Marsh Co. Boston.
#5 Huge Jos. Elliot butcher knife with segmented handle of wood and fibroid.
#6 Jos. Rodgers No. 6 Norfolk St. 2 piece small carving set with sterling silver handles.
#7 M.Cromwell Criterion small bowie hunter.
#8 Manhattan Cutlery Co. stag handled bowie.
#9 V(crown)R I Guide 2 piece ivory carving set

[Miller Bro's]

Ray

[danno50]

Great show, Ray.

[knife7knut]

Ray

Glad you enjoyed them Dimitri and Danno. I have a bunch more but I'm tired tonight;long day.

[Sheffieldguy]

Some pearl 4 blades, which are my favourites.
1) Thomas Renshaw & Son exhibition piece with original leather case. Fileworked blade spines and guilded back springs inside and out. 3 1/2” closed. Pre 1891
2) George Ibberson lobster made by Fred Osborne (signed liner) in 1937. Pick and corkscrew on the backside. Unused condition. 3 1/4” closed.
3) IXL George Wostenholm with intricately fileworked blade spines and inner back springs. Has name and 1906 engraved on the bar shield. Pre 1891. 3 1/2” closed.
4) Needham Brothers Repeat. Unused condition. Pre 1891. 3 1/4” closed.
5) A. Wright & Son with fileworked blade spines and back springs. I believe 1950s. 3 1/8” closed. Unused condition.

Pic#4 - Fileworked left to right: Renshaw, IXL, mWright.
Pic#6 - Inside the Renshaw.

[ObsidianEdge]

Wow! Very impressive Sheffieldguy. Everyone a beauty in its own right.

[danno50]

Five beautiful knives, Sheffieldguy!

[Sheffieldguy]

Thanks Mike and Dan! Appreciate it! I have another one on the way and will post it once it’s here.

[knife7knut]

Magnificent pearl assemblage Sheffield Guy!

[Sheffieldguy]

Thank you sir!

[edge213]

Some pearl 4 blades, which are my favourites.
1) Thomas Renshaw & Son exhibition piece with original leather case. Fileworked blade spines and guilded back springs inside and out. 3 1/2” closed. Pre 1891
2) George Ibberson lobster made by Fred Osborne (signed liner) in 1937. Pick and corkscrew on the backside. 3 1/4” closed.
3) IXL George Wostenholm with intricately fileworked blade spines and inner back springs. Has name and 1906 engraved on the bar shield. Pre 1891. 3 1/2” closed.
4) Needham Brothers Repeat. Unused condition. Pre 1891. 3 1/4” closed.
5) A. Wright & Son with fileworked blade spines and back springs. I believe 1950s. 3 1/8” closed. Unused condition.

Pic#4 - Fileworked left to right: Renshaw, IXL, Wright.
Pic#6 - Inside the Renshaw.



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Beautiful group of knives!

[Miller Bro's]

Some pearl 4 blades, which are my favourites.

Outstanding collection!!

[wiseguy]

Great showing of knives here folks !

[kootenay joe]

Wow! Very impressive Sheffieldguy. Everyone a beauty in its own right.

I fully agree with Mike's assessment.
If you use a plain background in a light color the details, like the filework will be better shown.
kj

[Sheffieldguy]

Thanks guys! I will try that next time KJ!

[butter]

I have an old pair of massive english scissors, that I treated poorly, missus was so angry when she found them all rusted, and informed me of the price.

[Sheffieldguy]

Ouch!! Hindsight is always 20/20!!

[JohnR]

Beautiful group of pearl knives Sheffieldguy

A few more, a stag Joseph Rodgers jack, one of these days I have to take better pics of it, a Wostenholm hawkbill in stag an a George Furness Barlow. The English cutlery companies used fantastic stag.
Really good read on Joseph Rodgers here,

http://www.strazors.com/uploads/images/rodgers.pdf

Would love to rummage through the stag cellar.

[peanut740]

Sheffieldguy outstanding group of knives!

[peanut740]

John

[ObsidianEdge]

Some more good additions, John. When you do re-take the photos, how about one with the both blades open? Great stag on that jack.

[kootenay joe]

This thread certainly puts my own knives into perspective, humble.
Here is a 3 1/2" Lock Back Whittler marked "XLALL/Parkin &/Marshall/Sheffield". LG4 dates this manufacturer at 1770-1910.
This knife is a good example of the overall affect of buffing: makes everything equally shiny and removes the 'soul' or 'presence' the knife possessed when finish was original.
At first i thought it was a split spring whittler but close inspection shows it to have separate springs for the secondaries. The shield is marked "Thos. Proctor" which is close to my name "Procter".
It is pre 1891 but by how much i don't know if there is a way of finding out. Were there knife catalogs in the 1850's ?
kj

[danno50]

Three more great old knives, John! Very nice to see a Furness barlow with so much blade left, they are usually pretty used up.