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.

Date

between 1800 and 1899

Zachariah Carleton, cutler, at the Case of Knives in New Street, Covent Garden, London : sells London, Birmingham & Sheffield cutlery wares : viz table knives & forks, clasp knives, razors, scissars.

Date

1739

Close to the knives : a memoir of disintegration / David Wojnarowicz ; introduction by Olivia Laing.

Date

2017

Iridectomy knives label

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

Egyptian flint knives, predynastic.

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.

Date

[1763?]

African surgical instruments, knives, lancets.

African surgical instruments, knives, lancets.

Knives for cutting fine sections.

Egyptian and Predynastic flint knives

Egyptian flint knives, finely worked.

Knives for surgery, China, 1801-1920

Specification of George Kent : apparatus for sifting cinders and cleaning knives.

Date

1857

Iron Age knives from Dechelette, Manuel d'Archeologie

Beni Hassan report, Artisans manufacturing flint knives.

Beni Hassan tomb, Egypt, Flint knives in use.

Beni Hassan tomb, Egypt, Flint knives in use.

Surgical knives from Samoa, New Guinea, Central Australia,

Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (5)

Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (1)

Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (4)

Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (3)

Chinese woodcut: Types of knives and needles (2)