Sheffield Exhibition Knives

Résumé du livre

This book has the finest exhibition of Sheffield knives seen since the Nineteenth Century Expositions. Here you will see daggers and Bowies fit for a king - or an oriental potentate. Three are multi-bladed sportsman's knives, some with horse-hoof picks, cartridge extractors and saws, fishing knives with hook removers, fly-tying vises, and buttonhooks (for high-button shoes). Some of the knives have been positively identified as being exhibited in the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace of in the Great Exposition in London in 1879. The quality of the knives those old Sheffield cutlers made will never be equaled - and they did it all with antiquated hand tools, without any modern power tools, working by the dim light of a grey English sky that filtered through a small window covered with the grime of fifty years of coal smoke.