LARGE**Victorian British American Wild West Export Brookes & Crookes Sheffield Bowie Knife With Polished Horn Scales & Locomotive Emitting Steam Pulling Coal Tender & Passenger Carriages Etched Blade. Sn 22078 Knive

**LARGE**Victorian British American Wild West Export Brookes & Crookes Sheffield Bowie Knife With Polished Horn Scales & Locomotive Emitting Steam Pulling Coal Tender & Passenger Carriages Etched Blade. Sn 22078 - 22078

In 1859 the Sheffield cutlers John Brookes & Thomas Crookes appear in Melville & Co’s Commercial directory of Sheffield as manufacturer’s of knives and dressing case instruments. The Company had a warehouse, workshops, engine house & grinding wheel behind a house on St Philip’s Road on the outskirts of the cutlery making district of Sheffield. The workshop / factory was named the Atlantic works and was previously the address of knife maker Thomas Wigfall. The Company took advantage of the booming American market making Bowies for the British & American export (see pages 161-163 of The Sheffield Knife Book by Tweedale). This is a large original Victorian Bowie Knife by Brookes & Crookes made for the American wild west market. It measures 16 ¾” overall with aa 11 ¾” steel Bowie blade. The blade has staining and small areas of light pitting consistent with age. The ricasso is stamped by the maker ‘Brookes & Crookes Sheffield’ together with ’Crown VR’ (Victoria Regina). The reverse of the blade has an etched scene depicting a Locomotive emitting steam pulling a coal tender & passenger carriages along a railway track. The hilt’s polshed horn scales secured by brass pins are undamaged. The cross guard is brass. The Bowie is complete with its original brown leather open top scabbard with small riveted belt loop to the rear. All leather is intact with just a few light surface scuffs and all stitching is intact. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 22078

£475.00