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One day Ill walk into Sheffields Millenium Galleries with a high-quality manual focus digital SLR camera. The staff will welcome me and provide me with information on all the knives on display (and maybe let me see all the others that ARENT on display), before turning down the bright overhead lighting and opening up the glass display cabinets to better allow me to photograph these old Sheffield knives for you, my friends. Yesterday, however, was not that day! So, for now at least, this is all you get!
After lollygagging with my granddaughter for a couple of hours yesterday, I nipped into the Millenium Galleries to take a few snapshots, which I figured you folk might like a look at. I still wasnt able to find info on a few of the knives, but Ive posted photos anyway.
Jack
Left to Right: Knife by James Dines, 1651. Folder by Benjamin Kirbie, 1665. Knife by Charles Glover, Ivory handles, 1660.
Knife with brass scales and cap in the form of a crown, 1530.
Pocket knife made around 1900, with scales showing the manufacture of crucible steel.
Knife by Stan Shaw, stainless steel, gold, and mother of pearl, 1997.
Top row, left to right: Pocket knife by Paten, brass scales, 1780s. Crucifix shaped knife with four blades and mother of pearl scales, late 19th century. Fish shaped knife, brass scales, 18th century.
Centre: Pocket knife by E A Cantrell & Sons, mosaic plastic scales, C.1900.
Bottom row, left to right: Ladies knife, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, tortoiseshell scales, C.1900. Advertising knife, transparent horn scales, late 18th century.
Top: Penknife by J Nowill & Sons, German silver scales, 1902 (marks the coronation of King Edward VII).
Bottom: Congress knife with four blades, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, silver and mother of pearl scales, C.1880.
Top row, left to right: Folding knife in the shape of a dog, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, horn scales, C.1790. Penknife in the shape of a leg, Southern & Richardson, ivory scales, C.1900.
Second row: Knife with propelling pencil, two blades, a nail file, and a button hook, J Gibb & Son, ivory scales, late 19th century.
Third row: Penknife and six-inch ruler, ivory scales, late 19th century.
Bottom row, left to right: Combined patch box and penknife with two blades, ivory scales with a gold shield, 1790. Sixteen bladed knife, ivory scales, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, early 19th century. Knife with perpetual calendar, ivory scales 19th century (The blade screws into the top of the case which holds two spare blades. On the side of the case is the engraved calendar. The days of the week are on a separate moveable band so that it can adjusted to suit any month).
Left to Right: Folding knife with stag handles, 18th century. Folding knife in the shape of a bird, Featherstone & Durber, brass and stainless steel scales, 1997.
Folding knife with iron blade and horn scales, made in 1758, but dated 1792.
Multi-bladed knife by Stan Shaw, stainless steel, gold, silver, and mother of pearl, 1987.
Exhibition knife with seventeen implements, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, ivory scales, 1840.
A while back I posted a couple of pics of this display case.
Heres a few more shots of the knives within.
One day me and Charlie (Waynorth) are going to have a look round the Sheffield museums, and Im sure hes got a better camera than me!
I also found some old postcards in the basement of a cutlery shop. If youve read this far, I guess youre interested in this kind of thing, so if youd like a set of around 15 Sheffield postcards, suitable for framing, including these (and others Ive posted), just mention it in a post (but please dont use the word giveaway), and at some point soon Ill pick a post by random and theyre yours. Im happy to send them anywhere because international postage really is very little. Feel free to post as many times as you like, if youd like the postcards or otherwise
After lollygagging with my granddaughter for a couple of hours yesterday, I nipped into the Millenium Galleries to take a few snapshots, which I figured you folk might like a look at. I still wasnt able to find info on a few of the knives, but Ive posted photos anyway.
Jack
Left to Right: Knife by James Dines, 1651. Folder by Benjamin Kirbie, 1665. Knife by Charles Glover, Ivory handles, 1660.
Knife with brass scales and cap in the form of a crown, 1530.
Pocket knife made around 1900, with scales showing the manufacture of crucible steel.
Knife by Stan Shaw, stainless steel, gold, and mother of pearl, 1997.
Top row, left to right: Pocket knife by Paten, brass scales, 1780s. Crucifix shaped knife with four blades and mother of pearl scales, late 19th century. Fish shaped knife, brass scales, 18th century.
Centre: Pocket knife by E A Cantrell & Sons, mosaic plastic scales, C.1900.
Bottom row, left to right: Ladies knife, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, tortoiseshell scales, C.1900. Advertising knife, transparent horn scales, late 18th century.
Top: Penknife by J Nowill & Sons, German silver scales, 1902 (marks the coronation of King Edward VII).
Bottom: Congress knife with four blades, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, silver and mother of pearl scales, C.1880.
Top row, left to right: Folding knife in the shape of a dog, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, horn scales, C.1790. Penknife in the shape of a leg, Southern & Richardson, ivory scales, C.1900.
Second row: Knife with propelling pencil, two blades, a nail file, and a button hook, J Gibb & Son, ivory scales, late 19th century.
Third row: Penknife and six-inch ruler, ivory scales, late 19th century.
Bottom row, left to right: Combined patch box and penknife with two blades, ivory scales with a gold shield, 1790. Sixteen bladed knife, ivory scales, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, early 19th century. Knife with perpetual calendar, ivory scales 19th century (The blade screws into the top of the case which holds two spare blades. On the side of the case is the engraved calendar. The days of the week are on a separate moveable band so that it can adjusted to suit any month).
Left to Right: Folding knife with stag handles, 18th century. Folding knife in the shape of a bird, Featherstone & Durber, brass and stainless steel scales, 1997.
Folding knife with iron blade and horn scales, made in 1758, but dated 1792.
Multi-bladed knife by Stan Shaw, stainless steel, gold, silver, and mother of pearl, 1987.
Exhibition knife with seventeen implements, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, ivory scales, 1840.
A while back I posted a couple of pics of this display case.
Heres a few more shots of the knives within.
One day me and Charlie (Waynorth) are going to have a look round the Sheffield museums, and Im sure hes got a better camera than me!
I also found some old postcards in the basement of a cutlery shop. If youve read this far, I guess youre interested in this kind of thing, so if youd like a set of around 15 Sheffield postcards, suitable for framing, including these (and others Ive posted), just mention it in a post (but please dont use the word giveaway), and at some point soon Ill pick a post by random and theyre yours. Im happy to send them anywhere because international postage really is very little. Feel free to post as many times as you like, if youd like the postcards or otherwise
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.oO(that would be great)
When I was a kid growing up in Sheffield, with the state of the rivers back then, you really had to love fishing to go fishing! 
