British Knives and Bowies
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**RESERVED**5/10**1960's British Named T.C. Wilde Siebe Gorman & Co Royal Navy Diver's Knife & Brass Scabbard Personally Adapted With Additional Brass Belt Bars. Sn 19966:47 - 19966:47 This is an original, excellent condition, 1960's, British Royal Navy Diver's Knife and Scabbard. Made by Siebe Gorman & Co, the knife has a broad 7 ¾” long double edged blade with medial ridge (13 ¼” overall). The blade is crisply marked by the manufacturer 'Siebe Gorman & Co'. The blade has areas of staining and has a fine saw back edge. It has a brass cross guard, ferrule stamped with initials ‘T.C.W’ & tang nut fitted with large brass lanyard ring. It has a dense black plastic contoured grooved handle. The knife is complete with original solid brass scabbard with belt slot. The scabbard is named ‘T.C. Wilde’ matching the ferrule initials, no doubt a previous owner’s name. The scabbard has been personally adapted at some point in its life by welding additional brass belt bars to the rear. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19966:47. (Store Room Hunting Knives Box). £495.00 |
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Boer War/ WW1 Era British Officer’s/ Cavalry Horseman's Folding Clasp Knife By Butler & Co Sheffield With Removable Rein Studs Engraved To ‘A.H Royds’ (British Foot Guards Lt Colonel A.H. Royds OBE). Sn 19971 - 19971 A.H. Royds OBE of The Foot Guards is recorded in the London Gazette supplement of 18th November 1919 as being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He would no doubt have seen service in both the Boer War & WW1 (copies of London Gazette entries accompany the knife). This is an excellent original, English, Sheffield made Officer’s/ Horseman's Folding Knife engraved to ‘A.H. Royds’. It has a large 3 ½” blade, 2 smaller blades, one with thumb spur, hook, shotgun cartridge removal tool marked 12 and 16 (bores), cork screw and gouge/ stone remover. It also has its two removable rein repairing studs. The blades are stamped by the Sheffield manufacturer 'G. Butler & Co' with 'key' trademark (George Butler & Co Sheffield C1810-1952, see pages 169-170 of the Sheffield knife Book by Tweedale). The knife measures 5 ¼” in length when closed. It has German Silver scales, screwdriver end and lanyard shackle. One scale is nicely engraved 'A.H. Royds'. The price for this quality knife to a documented British Officer worthy of further research includes UK delivery. Sn 19971 £595.00 |
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J.E.Middleton & Sons Spear Point Dagger with Leather Scabbard. ED 2673. - ED 2673 Throughout the 1970’s and 1990’s the famous Sheffield cutlers J.E. Middleton & his sons Ron & Roy specialised in producing quality classic English & American design Bowies at their Rockingham Street, Sheffield premises. This is a near mint, scarce pattern Middleton knife. It has a pristine 7” polished steel spear point dagger blade with medial ridge. The knife measures 11 ½” overall length. The blade is stamped ‘J.E Middleton & Sons Rockingham Street Sheffield’. It has a brass coloured finger guard. The brass coloured hilt has an ornate feather designed pommel. It is complete with its brown leather open top scabbard with brass riveted belt loop. All stitching & leather of the scabbard are intact*Loose at the bottom* .The price for this rare knife in great condition includes UK delivery. ED 2673. (Bowie Knives) £345.00 |
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Post WWII Private Purchase U.S. Military Fighting Knife & Sheath. 8424:35. - 8424:35 An American Post WW2 private purchase Military Fighting Knife. (see page 120 item 609 of Fighting Knives By Stephens). This knife by an unknown manufacturerer has black synthetic grips secured to the tang by 3 rivets. The ferrule and cross guard are made of brass. This rugged knife has a 6" Bowie type blade which is clean and 11 ½ “wide. It measures 12" overall and is complete with a later proffesionally made scabbard made of thick black leather. It has a single belt loop and retaining strap with single stud fastener. Price includes UK delivery. 8424:35. £245.00 |
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Victorian Cutlery Handled Spear Pointed Bowie Knife "Battle Axe" Trade Mark & Scabbard ED 2248. - ED 2248 A Victorian cutlery handled, spear pointed Bowie knife "Battle Axe" trade marked and complete with original brown leather scabbard. The knife has a typical victorian era polished steel cutlery handle decorated with ornate scrolls. It has a thin steel, oval shaped crossguard. The blade is polished steel with a single edge and 'spear pointed'. The blade measures 6 ½ " and the knife measures 11 ½ " overall. The blade is 1 ¼ " wide. The blade has the trade mark "Battle Axe" stamped into one side of the blade as can be seen in one of the photographs. The knife is in excellent condition. The dark brown leather scabbard is fitted to the blade perfectly. It is in very good condition. The price includes UK delivery. ED 2248. (Bowie Knives) £295.00 |
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An Excellent William Rodgers Of Sheffield, England Ebony Handled Bowie Knife & Black Leather Sheath. Sn 13889. - 13889 This is a top quality bowie knife by the premier Sheffield knife maker William Rodgers. It is clearly marked on one side of the blade with "William Rodgers Sheffield, England". The grips are black ebony, chequered and held in place by one pin. The polished blade measures 4 ¾ " long. The scabbard is top quality black leather with a belt loop riveted to the back. These knives were often carried by officers in WW1. (See 'The Sheffield Knife Book' by Geoffrey Tweedale page 257-265 and Ron Flooks ' British & Commonwealth Military Knives' pages 23, plate 29 for a WW1 knife of a similar style with a knuckleduster). A top quality knife in excellent condition by a premier Sheffield maker. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 13889. (Drawers) £295.00 |
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WW2 Burma Campaign Chindit Special Forces, Fighting Knife / Combat Bowie (Slim Blade Variant) & Scabbard. Sn 19882 - 19882 The Chindits – officially in 1943 designated the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade and in 1944, the 3rd Indian Infantry Division were a British "Special Force" that served in Burma and India in 1943 and 1944 during the Burma Campaign in WW2. This is an original combat bowie carried by Chindit troops. These fighting knives were manufactured in India during WW2 and come in a number of variations (see page 206 plate 495 of Flook’s book British & Commonwealth Military Knives where a Chindit knife with the same narrow blade and same black leather scabbard as our example are illustrated). As is common with these knives there are no manufacturer or date marks on our example. The wood slab grips are secured to the Tang by 3 brass rivets. The grips are undamaged. It has a single edged 7 ½” long blade with correct Bowie type tip. The blade has staining consistent with age and is sharpened to a razor sharp cutting edge. The correct original scabbard is made of black leather, stitched along the seams and has a single belt loop to the rear of the scabbard. The scabbard has the correct leather retaining strap with eyelet and press stud fastener. The price for this rare Chindit knife includes UK delivery. Sn 19882 £975.00 |
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Victorian Era, Brookes & Crookes Sheffield Spear Point Bowie Knife With German Silver Cross Guard & Scabbard With German Silver Mounts. Sn 19827 - 19827 In 1859 the Sheffield cutlers John Brookes & Thomas Crookes appear in Melville & Co’s Commercial directory of Sheffield as manufacturer’s of knives and dressing case instruments. The Company had a warehouse, workshops, engine house & grinding wheel behind a house on St Philip’s Road on the outskirts of the cutlery making district of Sheffield. The workshop / factory was named the Atlantic works and was previously the address of knife maker Thomas Wigfall. The Company took advantage of the booming American market making Bowies for the British & American export (see pages 161-163 of The Sheffield Knife Book by Tweedale). This is an excellent Victorian Bowie Knife Brookes & Crookes. It measures 12 ¼” overall with a 7 ¼” spear point bowie blade which is sharp and has just light staining consistent with age. The ricasso is stamped by the maker ‘Brookes & Crookes Sheffield’ together with their ‘bell’ trademark. The excellent chequered polished Buffalo horn scales are undamaged and secured to the tang by German Silver pins. The cross guard is German Silver. The dagger is complete with brown leather open top scabbard with belt loop. The vertical edges of the scabbard have tooled decoration. The scabbard has a German Silver throat mount & chape. All leather and stitching of the scabbard are intact with just light rubbing to the leather consistent with age. The price for this excellent Victorian Bowie includes UK delivery. Sn 19827 £775.00 |
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Victorian English Lingard Sheffield ‘Superior Cutlery’ Small Cutlery Hilt Spear Point Bowie Knife & Scabbard - 19697 Several Lingard family members lived on Pea Croft (now Solly Street) in the nineteenth century. John Lingard was listed as a maker of spring knives, Spanish dirks, and bowie, dagger and hunting knives. In 1850 he registered a switchblade design in which a large dagger blade is released when you press on a smaller penknife blade, the same type of mechanism which is used in the knife at the top of this page. John Lingard was one of the hundreds of cutlers that worked on a small scale and had their workshops within their home. This type of working was more usual within Sheffield than the large scale factories that began to be established from the 1830s onwards. John Lingard also ran The Star pub from his work and home address, 83 Pea Croft, which was one of the six pubs with a named keeper on the road in 1852. It was very common for cutlers to have more than one source of income in Sheffield, so that if there was a downturn in trade there was money still coming in to support them and their families. This is a small Victorian cutlery handled spear point Bowie by Lingard. The knife has a typical Victorian era cast white metal cutlery form handle decorated with stylised foliate design. The hilt has an oval finger guard. The 5 ½” long, steel spear point Bowie blade has staining consistent with age. One side of the blade is signed by the maker ‘Lingard Superior Cutlery’. The knife measures 10” overall. The original red hue open top leather scabbard has German Silver or brass throat mount and chape. The leather has tooled foliate decoration. All leather and stitching are intact with just light surface wear. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19697 £375.00 |
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English Clements (London) / Ibberson Sheffield Hand Forged Horseman's / Coachman's Multi Bladed Folding Knife With 10 Blades / Tools & Stag Antler Scales. Sn 19696 - 19696 Chas Clements were a long established firm of early 20th Century cutlers based in London. Some Clements of London knives were manufactured by Ibberson Sheffield for Clements'(see pages 19 & 20 of British & Commonwealth Military Knives by Flook). This is an English Sheffield made Horseman's / Coachman’s Multi Bladed Clasp Knife by Clements, most likely Chas Clements. The knife has 7 fold out tools, a screw driver tip forming part of the frame and 2 removable tools. The blades are marked ‘Clements Hand Forged’. The blades and tools which can be seen in the images fold neatly into its steel frame which has undamaged Stag antler scales secured by brass pins. The scales have German silver bolsters and German silver shackle. One scale has a void German silver escutcheon. Slotted into the scales are 2 tools which consist of a spike and most likely a pair of steel tweezers (the tweezers? are tightly fitted in the frame and to avoid possible damage we have not tried to remove them). Closed the knife measures 4 ¼” length. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19696 £295.00 |
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