Victorian Era, Brookes & Crookes Sheffield Spear Point Bowie Knife With German Silver Cross Guard & Scabbard With German Silver Mounts Knives

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