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Cutlers

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  • A cutler, or maker of knives, daggers and swords, working in his shop as a customer tests the weight of a sword. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. Walker.
  • Robert Sparling, razor-maker, at the Case of Knives in St. James's Market : makes and sells all sorts of cutlers ware, as knives & forks both for table and dezert with hafts in ivory, wood or horn; silver and china, or any other curious handles mounted in the best blades &c. : makes & sells razors, scissars, fleams, sheers, pen knives... likewise surgeons instruments in ye neatest manner.
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Catalogue

    • Ephemera

    Bought of H. Webster, surgeons' instrument maker and cutler : manufacturer of table knives, razors, scissors, pen knives &c. : 261, High Holborn : NB. all sorts of cutlery ground & repaired daily.

    Webster, H. | Date: Between 1800 and 1899
    • Ephemera

    Splendid show rooms at the King's Cutlery manufactory and Sheffield Plate Warehouse / Joseph Rodgers and Sons.

    Joseph Rodgers & Sons. | Date: [1828?]
    • Ephemera

    J. Hillier, hardwareman & fish hook maker (late apprentice to Mr. Jewson, deceased) : no. 15 Crooked Lane near the Monument sells all sorts of London, Sheffield & Birmingham cutlery-wares, wholesale & retail : N.B. superfine double strong battle gunpowder, shot, fine flints, &c. : fishing tackle of all sorts, variety of shooting articles.

    Hillier, J. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799?]
    • Ephemera

    Robert Sparling, razor-maker, at the Case of Knives in St. James's Market : makes and sells all sorts of cutlers ware, as knives & forks both for table and dezert with hafts in ivory, wood or horn; silver and china, or any other curious handles mounted in the best blades &c. : makes & sells razors, scissars, fleams, sheers, pen knives... likewise surgeons instruments in ye neatest manner.

    Sparling, Robert. | Date: [1763?]
  • view Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. Walker.
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    Sheffield: four cutlers working at benches with hammers and vices. Coloured aquatint by R. Havell after G. Walker.

    Walker, George, 1781-1856. | Date: June 1. 1814 | Reference: 30951i
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