Stag Saturday - Let's See Some Traditional Stag!

swag1953 said:
Not really sure where to place this in the forum. If not correct place, let me know. But it is some beautiful stag on an old sharpening steel I found a few years back at a local antique store. Has Engish hallmarks, sterling fittings, and a fellow told me Sanbar stag. Comments and opinions welcomed. Thanks.

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Really nice item, it would have been part of a meat carving set and been in a case (leather clad, velvet lined) together with a fork, main carving knife and sometimes a small carving knife for game- pheasant, hare, partridge etc. or poultry. These were popular wedding gifts in the late c19th/early c20th across Europe and N.America. Manufacturers in England, France, Germany and the US produced them and some were of very high quality steel and antler with these lavish silver fittings as in yours .

I've heard it said that old carving sets that were discarded or unwanted were used by knife cutlers as a source of Stag for custom knives, good re-cyling ! The hallmarks on the fittings on your steel are from the Sheffield assay office-Crown symbol, Lion passant as the mark of Sterling purity and it looks like the letter Q or P as date stamp. Seems it would be 1907 or 1908.

See the chart here for further reference.


Thanks, Will
 
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