Your Cart
Your cart is empty
The Sheffield Knife Book: a History and Collectors' Guide
Click to Enlarge
The Sheffield Knife Book: a History and Collectors' Guide
by Geoffrey Tweedale
A comprehensive history of the Sheffield knife industry, charting its medieval origins in village forges around the town, through its Victorian heyday - when it dominated world knife manufacture - and then in more recent periods of decline and contraction. Separate chapters look at Sheffield's industrial system 9in the 19th century heyday. the development of Sheffield's American trade, the city's reaction to foreign competition, and the impact of two world wars and their aftermath.
It describes the methods of Sheffield knife manufacture, looking in detail at various production stages: steel making, forging, grinding, polishing, handle-making and final assembly.? The most famous Sheffield patterns are discussed and illustrated, including the Barlow knife, the Bowie, the pen-knife, the sportsman's knife and many others.
There are over 120 profiles if the leading Sheffield knife makers.? This core section of the book provides case-studies of firms such as Wostenholm, Mappin, Rodgers, Butcher, Brookes & Crookes, with information on their histories, businessmen, trademarks, location and major products.
It discusses ways of identifying and dating antique Sheffield knives and includes a list of places to visit.? A detailed reading list is also provided.
++++++
Hardcover, graphic paper over boards, graphic endpapers, no dust jacket (not issued). Quarto, 26.5 cm. 320 pages, well illustrated, part color, photos and repros.
Hallamshire Press, Sheffield, UK? ISBN 1-874718-11-3
CONDITION: Very good. No dust jacket.? A couple of small "dings" along top edge, name in ink at top of half-title page, else near fine, almost as new, clean, square and tight.
