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Six months or so ago, I barely saw a knife in Leeds market. Recently, its been almost awash with the things (maybe this is just down to Muggins here)! Many are junk for sure, but Ive found a few worth buying. I bought these as a job-lot today.
The star of the half dozen is made by John Petty & Sons of Sheffield. It still has excellent W & T, and is a knife Ill certainly carry. A post I saw on another forum made by one of our esteemed Sheffield knife experts here, says that a John Petty Whittler with near-identical covers, is listed in the companys 1920 catalogue as being made using ivory. Opinions on the material used here would be welcome.
The maker of the next knife is not given, but it is marked Made in Germany and from Warranted Forged Steel. Sadly, the main blade appears to have snapped at some point, but someone clearly cared enough about the little knife to do something with it, and put a decent edge on it too. W & T are still good.
The MOP handled knife is well made and still in good shape, but unfortunately it carries no makers mark at all. Sweet little knife.
The even smaller knife is an old Richards. Unfortunately the first spray of WD40 left the blade drooping
The other two knives are also made by Richards, and as can be seen, they are the same pattern. Cheap knives, but in reasonable shape.
The star of the half dozen is made by John Petty & Sons of Sheffield. It still has excellent W & T, and is a knife Ill certainly carry. A post I saw on another forum made by one of our esteemed Sheffield knife experts here, says that a John Petty Whittler with near-identical covers, is listed in the companys 1920 catalogue as being made using ivory. Opinions on the material used here would be welcome.
The maker of the next knife is not given, but it is marked Made in Germany and from Warranted Forged Steel. Sadly, the main blade appears to have snapped at some point, but someone clearly cared enough about the little knife to do something with it, and put a decent edge on it too. W & T are still good.
The MOP handled knife is well made and still in good shape, but unfortunately it carries no makers mark at all. Sweet little knife.
The even smaller knife is an old Richards. Unfortunately the first spray of WD40 left the blade drooping
The other two knives are also made by Richards, and as can be seen, they are the same pattern. Cheap knives, but in reasonable shape.
It sounds like my knife is perhaps a later model than the one I saw referred to. Twenty years ago I had a big section of mammoth ivory sitting in my living room and wish I'd payed more attention to it now (and hung onto it)! 