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

[CNoyes]

Beautiful old knife Charles.

I'm not sure we'll ever see that quality of workmanship again.

Charlie Noyes

 

[ptradeco]

Fabulous piece Charles. The pique' is outstanding! Documented provenance is always a nice touch for the collector. :thumbup:

 

[Chief]

Great knife Charles. Thought I would bump this pic to the next page and add the watch was made in 1893, my great grandfather bartered a bale of cotton for it.

 

[chuko]

Thanks Charlie and Brad. John, the added story on your Great Grandfather's watch is cool and just enhances the photo. Thanks

 

[Mike Robuck]

That's a very superb addition to an already outstanding collection Charles. And a great photo by Chief.

 

[herder]

We need to bump this thread. Here is one of my finds, a fancy quill knife.
Charles
Description found on page 242, Sheffield Exhibition Knives “Parkin and Marshall, Sheffield, a 3 1/4” lobster pattern quill knife with eight blades, four on each side. All are pen blades, except one ink eraser blade and one manicure blade. It has scalloped pearl handles with scalloped liners: the pearl is pique’ on each side with clamshell-type bolsters and an oval nickel silver shield”
One blade is broken. Parkin and Marshall (1770-c1910)

Beautiful knife and beautiful photography.

 

[galvanic1882]

Chief that is one beautiful knife!!! I just got this one and would like comments on it please. It's 3 5/8" closed with genuine tortoise shell handles. Not sure about the bolsters and shield but I think they are gold or gold filled. The 2 pen blades are marked IXL George Wostenholm Sheffield England but the file and larger blade are both marked on one side No 6 Norfolk Street Sheffield and the other side has the star and cross signs. Those are usually on Rodgers knives? Look at how the pivot pins sit up off the bolsters. The knife is very well put together but why the 2 different makers blades?? I would love to hear what you folks think. Thanks Mike

 

[kootenay joe]

I think there are only 2 possibilities:
either 2 blades are not original to this frame,
or, 3 or all 4 blades are not original to this frame.
kj

 

[galvanic1882]

Those are my thoughts too but it is a really nice knife and operates smooth as silk. I just went to the jeweler in my neighborhood and he says that the bolsters are 14k plumb gold!!

 

[wlfryjr]

Mike, I would say well put together!

Charles thank you and John for showing us this piece of cutlery history.

 

[chuko]

Here is an unusual knife with what we are guessing is an Ivory master or maybe French ivory? Nowill and Sons / Sheffield (c 1850) 2 1/2” wharncliffe with a ivory master blade and reverse gunstock frame. Shadow covers with brass liners and raised pins. Long shield engraved with J.C. Mackenzie.
Charles

 

[smiling-knife]

Great knife Charles. I think the blade must be ivory given the age. I think it was a letter opener.

 

[1fartsmella]

Charles, I believe this to be an Ivory bladed Fruit knife. A non tarnishing Ivory blade for cutting fruit in place of sterling silver. I have seen some multi-blade Cattaraugus knives with similar Ivory blades. They are very rare. A fantastic pattern in super condition. Thanks, Barry

 

[chuko]

Thanks S.K. and Barry. Knife is unusual and certainly caught my eye when I saw it. I'm drawn to the more petite knives anyway, but this one with the wharncliffe master in ivory, not steel, was something I had to have.
Charles

 

[kootenay joe]

This 3 3/8" Whittler is marked on all blades:" XLALL / PARKIN & / MARSHALL / SHEFFIELD "
It has been buffed and the pearl covers are not the original ones.
To save space i will not post all the pictures here. There is a link at the end of this post to a thread i started in the BRL forum which has the rest of the pics.

The last picture shows that this might not be a "split backspring". With my 9X loupe i can just make out a fine line that is a continuation of the "split" between the springs.
Am i correct that a the split show end abruptly about 1/2 way along the length of the spring ? and there should not be a fine line as if the split might have continued just at surface level ?

Rest of pics: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...ing-Lockback-Whittler?p=14572259#post14572259

Time for the British Experts to chime in please.

 

[kootenay joe]

Further close inspection shows that this is not a split spring. The rather heavy buffing obscured the line between the 2 springs at the lockbar end.
kj

 

[1fartsmella]

Cool Lock Back Whitt KJ!

 

[1fartsmella]

Found this 2 1/2" closed (62mm). Wharncliffe whittler. All 3 blades are stamped G crown R CONGREVE PATENT. It has carved Tortoise shell handles and scalloped liners. It's very fragile, with a couple of cracks in the deeper carved grooves of the shell. Levine's book dates this 1829 - 1843. I'm wondering about the word Patent in the stamping?

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[knarfeng]

You know really. That just boggles the mind. Almost 200 years old. An amazing find.

 

[wlfryjr]

That's some knife Barry,wow.