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miked

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I am trying to put together a study of pocket knife cutlers in areas such as Stannington, Wadsley, Worrall, Oughtibridge, Bradfield, Dungworth, Grenosde etc. Most had finished by WWI.

This has been a much neglected area of study despite the fact that Rodgers and Wostenholme started at Stannington.

I would be grateful for any information or photo's of workshops (most demolished). Likewise pictures of knives such as, Oats (SEO),Furness (MFS), Rose, Copley, Dyson, Mount. Bramall, etc. (There have been hundreds).

These knives tended to be, "work-knives" often, Barlows. They were "mass" produced by hand methods. As such, they were often crudely made. As a result these knives are often overlooked by collectors. Many thousands must have been made over hundreds of years yet examples are extremely rare.

I see these cutlers as unsung heroes in the cutlery history of Sheffield.

Please check your collections.

Acknowledgements will be given.

Thanks, Mike

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Hi I wondered how you got on with this great project ? my wife's family made folding knives in a workshop outbuilding in Stannigton am sure her late aunt had memories of it .Family before that in Bradfield, Dungworth. Have done a reasonable amount of work on family history with ancestry but am really missing this sort of context. Would be grateful for anything you can share!

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Hi there .I have been looking online for cutler,s in stanington and serounding areas which I think they call hallamshire, please correct me if I'm wrong.i came up with quite a few.Peter Bales-1590-Benjiman Drable-Brights-Foljambes-Wortcliffes-Jessops-Seliokes-G,Farmer 1721-George Smith-1749-Barber-Joseph Beal-Johnathan Watkins-1787-George. More-RobertHow1774-Montgomeries1797 and Wardle&Bentham-1814.I am not sure but I think I may have one penknife from that eara may be two and another?Here are some photos.No1-G Farmer-No2-Barns-Cutler and Much later i think James Barber.IMG_20180507_112400.thumb.jpg.e4b73c9c107213300c13768c00b04cc0.jpg

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