Another T Ellin

[VCM3]

Not that theres many out there ,but I was gifted this one and I figured you all may like to see it .

There's a few threads here on BF's with knives stamped by this firm ,here's one https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pithy-jack.1059739/#post-12096191

Main,larger is not really a haf stop but more a round tang,the smaller blade is a half stop. Both have serious gator snap,single spring . Don't know the age ,but man it's gotta be old

Main blade

smaller blade

 

[Jack Black]

Not that theres many out there ,but I was gifted this one and I figured you all may like to see it .

There's a few threads here on BF's with knives stamped by this firm ,here's one https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pithy-jack.1059739/#post-12096191

Main,larger is not really a haf stop but more a round tang,the smaller blade is a half stop. Both have serious gator snap,single spring . Don't know the age ,but man it's gotta be old

Main blade

smaller blade

Nice find Vince, hope you're keeping well buddy

 

[kamagong]

Thanks for sharing that Vince. Are my eyes deceiving me, or does that stamp say 'REAL KNIFE BUTTER'?

 

[waynorth]

Cutter??

 

[kamagong]

Cutter??

That does make sense.

Unless the stamp is meant to read 'REAL BUTTER KNIFE'...lol.

 

[waynorth]

That first letter is not clear at all!!

 

[VCM3]

Look at some letters on the tang stamps too. It is odd the way some lines wore off .

 

[VCM3]

Nice find Vince, hope you're keeping well buddy

Wasn't hard to find at all Jack ,a buddy put it in the box with another knife deal we did . I'm doing fine and I hope you're too Thank You

 

[VCM3]

Thanks for sharing that Vince. Are my eyes deceiving me, or does that stamp say 'REAL KNIFE BUTTER'?

That's what at first I thought too lol. Took me a while to figure it out ,lol. The knife is actually surprisingly sharp ,that to me is peculiar too

 

[btb01]

Here’s something from Google image search. Looks like it’s CUTTER beneath an image of a ship.

 

[Jack Black]

Look at some letters on the tang stamps too. It is odd the way some lines wore off .

The stamp would most likely have been let-in after the blade was forged, almost certainly by hand, before it went to the cutler, so that would also account for the unevenness of depth

Wasn't hard to find at all Jack ,a buddy put it in the box with another knife deal we did . I'm doing fine and I hope you're too Thank You

That's good to hear my friend, I'm fine thanks

That's what at first I thought too lol. Took me a while to figure it out ,lol. The knife is actually surprisingly sharp ,that to me is peculiar too

Good steel

 

[VCM3]

The stamp would most likely have been let-in after the blade was forged, almost certainly by hand, before it went to the cutler, so that would also account for the unevenness of depth

That's good to hear my friend, I'm fine thanks

Good steel

Thanks Jack I kinda figured the " good steel" ,the stamp info though ,thank you I'm learning all the time

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack I kinda figured the " good steel" ,the stamp info though ,thank you I'm learning all the time

They were still hand forging at Sylvester Works into the 1980's! Stan Shaw still struck his stamps by hand until he passed, and as he was old, they're not always even, sometimes even double-stamped, something you'll see, sometimes, on other pocket knife blades. I was with him when he struck the one below, using his new British Empire Medal stamp for the first time

 

[Will Power]

Not that theres many out there ,but I was gifted this one and I figured you all may like to see it .

There's a few threads here on BF's with knives stamped by this firm ,here's one https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/pithy-jack.1059739/#post-12096191

Main,larger is not really a haf stop but more a round tang,the smaller blade is a half stop. Both have serious gator snap,single spring . Don't know the age ,but man it's gotta be old

Main blade

smaller blade

Like it! And all on a single-spring too plus nicely lined bolsters, all steel and assume some very pocket-worn Stag or? Well sharpened down Spear master, what's the length of the knife please Vince?

Cutter is a type of small sailing boat popular in the c19th so a good play on words for the trademark.

Vulcan, Roman god of Fire and destruction such as volcanoes, worshipped to keep fires & disasters at bay.

In my puerile way, I thought it reads Butter too but suppose it's unlikely! But it could refer whimsically to the idiom "Like a Hot Knife through Butter" with that mark being a blaze and meaning this cuts effortlessly. All in all a very likeable acquisition.Stamped blades a desirable feature.

Thanks, Will

 

[Will Power]

Some more interesting background here about the family and innovations in techniques, styles and the use of early stainless- stain proof . Stamps and connexions with Canada.

Looks like this could be an old pocket-knife then, decent quality and pedigree whatever

Thomas Ellin & Company Ltd

<p>The Ellin family had settled in Norton by the mid-eighteenth century. James Ellin (b. 1746) was a husbandman, who had four sons, but abandoned them ...

hawleysheffieldknives.com

 

[VCM3]

Like it! And all on a single-spring too plus nicely lined bolsters, all steel and assume some very pocket-worn Stag or? Well sharpened down Spear master, what's the length of the knife please Vince?

Cutter is a type of small sailing boat popular in the c19th so a good play on words for the trademark.

Vulcan, Roman god of Fire and destruction such as volcanoes, worshipped to keep fires & disasters at bay.

In my puerile way, I thought it reads Butter too but suppose it's unlikely! But it could refer whimsically to the idiom "Like a Hot Knife through Butter" with that mark being a blaze and meaning this cuts effortlessly. All in all a very likeable acquisition.Stamped blades a desirable feature.

Thanks, Will

Will 4-1/4” closed

 

[kamagong]

In my puerile way, I thought it reads Butter too but suppose it's unlikely! But it could refer whimsically to the idiom "Like a Hot Knife through Butter" with that mark being a blaze and meaning this cuts effortlessly. All in all a very likeable acquisition.Stamped blades a desirable feature.

I want a knife with that blade stamp, just so I can boast that I have a 'REAL BUTTER KNIFE'!

 

[waynorth]

The stamp would most likely have been let-in after the blade was forged, almost certainly by hand, before it went to the cutler, so that would also account for the unevenness of depth

Does being "let in" mean stamped, Jack? I only speak Peasant Canadian English, not The King's!!!

 

[Jack Black]

Does being "let in" mean stamped, Jack? I only speak Peasant Canadian English, not The King's!!!

Aye, verily!

 

[Ernie1980]

Very nice, I really like the old Sheffield knives!