Pearl handled Knives

brownshoe said:
Oh gosh, can't be exact. It was at a NAKCA show in Springfield. I met Paul Basch there for the first time too. He was schilling for AG and Paul didn't yet know about the cancer he carried in him. It was also the first and only time I coon-fingered a Scagel. Paul had it. I'd gather 15-20 years ago. Great show...miss it something awful. Springfield Show was a great yearly summer trip...
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CF'd and CE'd a Scagel!!! Wow!!! How many of us have done that - not me!
I wish!!
 
Steven_69 said:
The hardest thing ist to photograph them. Pearl handled knives never looks so beautiful on my pics as in reality.
Hen & Rooster small canoe.

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Looks beautiful to Me!!!
 
The only one I have. What I first thought was a silver bladed Fruit Knife common in the late c19th early c20th as presents and in the time before stainless. Silver imparts no flavour (is a great conductor of heat though) and non toxic.

Initially I thought the stamps were English hallmarks but they're not: Crown for Sheffield AND Anchor for Birmingham? Not possible. No sterling assay mark-lion passant. It has some other odd mark almost like an insect and no maker's mark. Sometimes electro plated silver was stamped with fancy looking marks in Gothic to trick the unwary as EPNS, electro plated nickel silver, not this. It might be an example of the earlier process known as Old Sheffield Plate where a thin sheet of silver was rolled over base-metal to give the appearance of silver but at much reduced cost, this was the superseded by the chemical and electro plating process in mid c19th which was not only cheaper still but favoured for mass-production ware.

The blade is certainly very soft but it's non ferrous, conducts heat and ice well and doesn't have an odour or rust. Liners are brass, backspring carbon and I assume it's MOP? Possibly imitation...Anyway, I'm glad stainless got off the ground as silver is pretty impractical for cutting a firm apple!

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This is the only pearl handled knife I have. My dad gave it to me and said it was given to him when he was only 13. He never carried it as an adult and admittedly didn't take good care of it. I had a chance to clean it up and get it oiled, but never got around to sharpening it / cleaning up that bad chip.

A Hibbard Spencer Bartlett & Co:
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