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Adrian Cook

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Hi there.Happy holidays to everyone.looks like the good weather is going to with us for this one.Just thought you would like to see another Sheffield knife I bought at a boot fair .4 blades -brass liners and ivory type scales, all blades have a good snap to them.Another lovely Sheffield knife for my collection.Happy days?

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11 hours ago, Adrian Cook said:

Hi there.Happy holidays to everyone.looks like the good weather is going to with us for this one.Just thought you would like to see another Sheffield knife I bought at a boot fair .4 blades -brass liners and ivory type scales, all blades have a good snap to them.Another lovely Sheffield knife for my collection.Happy days?

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George Gill was born in Thorne c1826 by 1848 he had a small firm making scissors on Lambert Place just off Lambert Street where he lived at No 39. In 1851 he had a workforce of eighteen but by 1861 this had dropped to just ten, George died on the 26 th of November 1870, he was just around 44 years old, he was laid to rest in Burngreave Cemertery. His business was still listed as a maker of fine scissors and tailors shears in Lambert Street, seems his son Frederick was running the business and living in his fathers home on St Phillips Road, by 1879 he was trading out of the Norbury Works on Lambert Street with a product list that included American Shears?, Horse Clipping and Pruning Flowers scissors. In 1881 Frederick employed twenty five men and ten women, Gills were still at the Norbury Works in 1907, it appears it stopped trading shortly after that.

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I' really didn't think it was that old. It's beautiful little penknife. Im so glad to be a member of this forum ,really would be lost and probably never find the information that I look for.Absolutely love collecting Sheffield knives old and new  I would like to thank you guys for all the information you find for people like me .Hope you don't mind me coming back again and again in the near future with some more Sheffield k Ives. Thank you. 

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Gill and Son of Lambert street were advertising in the Sheffield papers for a scissor dresser in 1914.  Graces Guide has the advert below from 1951, if it was a related company (though different address) the product range no longer included knives, and they had a London office and were at St Philips road in 1938 (Ironmonger Diary and Hardware Buyer Guide)

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Thank you Edmund. I wonder why they stopped making knives as they were producing exerlent penknives weren't they. When I buy knives around boot fairs accasionally the people don't know appreciate what skill went in to make these knives and I am so glad people like us do and to rescue them before they rust away. Thanks again. 

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Just a thought 'Wondering if anyone can put a date on this knife',thanks,

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