"Made in Sheffield" 1830-1930, A golden age ?

Thanks. Too bad you guys didn't live closer. You could come over one afternoon about 3 p.m. and I'd serve tea and we could use these knives to spread butter and jam, or marmalade, on some slices of crusty white bread.
roland
 
Thanks for showing your cased Rodgers tea knives Roland, they look extremely fine quality, very nice :thumbup:.


Here's a recently found little Edwardian era 3 3/8" stag handled sportsman's, made in Sheffield by Mappin Bros (faintly marked on the pile side tang of the pocket blade only) for the cutlers CARRICK BROS, 237 ARGYLE ST, GLASGOW, wonderful quality, everything walks and talks as made.

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A Mappin Bros newspaper ad..
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Thanks for looking..

Mick
 
Plus 1 on the stag. Got a shot of the other side? I also like the bolsters.

Were the knives in this pattern generally bigger than this one?

You sure come up with some real nice examples of Sheffield knives, Mick. Thanks again for posting them.
 
Yes, that stag is extraordinary.

I think Mick is actually the British Museum:D The knives he shows and the condition are art-work.
 
Mike Robuck said:
Plus 1 on the stag. Got a shot of the other side? I also like the bolsters.

Were the knives in this pattern generally bigger than this one?
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Thanks for the comments Rob, Mike and willgoy :D

I think most sportsman's knives that look similar to the Carrick Bros, there are a few earlier in this thread, a 12 pc Knivesmagasinet, a 14pc Hugh Brown, a 10pc JR and a 12pc Singleton, are slightly larger measuring 3 1/2".

Here's a pic of the pile side.
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The Carrick Bros sportsman's bares a Glasgow cutler's (retailer) mark, the third knife in this thread that does so, the others were the H Brown sports and the A Marshall Nautilus.

Mick
 
I somehow missed the old Barlow and Scribes on the previous page. Thanks for posting those ancient beauties, Mick, and also the subsequent little Sportsman's above!
What time is tea, Roland?;)
(I am not so Canadian as to know intuitively, much to my Anglo wife's dismay!!:eek:):D
 
Tea time is usually about 3 pm. I did grow up in an "English" household even though the house itself was in Montreal.
roland
 
Delighted you like the Carrick Steve & Charlie, cucumber sandwiches are nice to have when one takes tea….apparently :D


A very good place to research "Glasgow" marked knives is the National Library of Scotland web site, they have every Glasgow PO Directory 1783-1911 available on-line.

Duncan, your J & A Kelly sportsman's you kindly posted pics of a while ago was retailed by James & Andrew Kelly who had a shop at 6 & 7 Argyle Arcade between 1844-51 and then at 82 Argyle Street between 1851-1879.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=8589682&postcount=535 .

Mick
 
Beautiful stag on that one, Mick. Those old Sheffield cutlers had some good stag to work with, and they knew how to make the best use of it. Their work puts most modern stag handle mounts to shame.
 
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Beautiful stag on that one, Mick. Those old Sheffield cutlers had some good stag to work with, and they knew how to make the best use of it. Their work puts most modern stag handle mounts to shame.
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Hi lambertiana, yes I think the old Sheffield cutlers certainly used stag to its best advantage, the cutlery industry imported an awful lot of the stuff, I guess the cutters and dyers really knew how to process the materiel nothing would be wasted the most suitable being used on the more upmarket items. The home grown Scottish stag was always considered inferior as it was more porous and as such was prone to shrinking and was used more on carving sets and domestic wares.

Four Edwardian era sportsman's hafted in stag, no shrinkage or cracks (6 1/4" - 3 1/2")
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Mick
 
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Hi Mick,

What a pretty picture those four make. Prettier still that you chose to show them with hazel nuts (Filberts.) Especially as all four knives are equipped with nut crackers!

Jim Taylor.
 
Mick,

Thats a neat picture of the four different size sportsman's lined up! . I was wondering on the stag, the raised areas, or tops of the popcorn, when hafted originally was white, and with age has turned this color? Or do you think the stag was dyed after hafting?

Ken
 
Beautiful Mick,Thank You :thumbup:
-Vince
 
Good Grief Mick!!, Thos knives are just simply amazing, as everyone has commented, I just love your showing us you fantastic knifes of such high Quality.....
Yes...Im sure that Willgoy is onto something...Im sure your job was curator for the Museum....and when you left, they would have come to the storage room where they kept these knives....flicked on the lights......."mmmm, strange" as they turn to each other ................"didnt we keep the knives in here"?
 
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