Victorian English Lingard Sheffield ‘Superior Cutlery’ Small Cutlery Hilt Spear Point Bowie Knife & Scabbard Knives

Victorian English Lingard Sheffield ‘Superior Cutlery’ Small Cutlery Hilt Spear Point Bowie Knife & Scabbard - 19697

Several Lingard family members lived on Pea Croft (now Solly Street) in the nineteenth century. John Lingard was listed as a maker of spring knives, Spanish dirks, and bowie, dagger and hunting knives. In 1850 he registered a switchblade design in which a large dagger blade is released when you press on a smaller penknife blade, the same type of mechanism which is used in the knife at the top of this page. John Lingard was one of the hundreds of cutlers that worked on a small scale and had their workshops within their home. This type of working was more usual within Sheffield than the large scale factories that began to be established from the 1830s onwards. John Lingard also ran The Star pub from his work and home address, 83 Pea Croft, which was one of the six pubs with a named keeper on the road in 1852. It was very common for cutlers to have more than one source of income in Sheffield, so that if there was a downturn in trade there was money still coming in to support them and their families. This is a small Victorian cutlery handled spear point Bowie by Lingard. The knife has a typical Victorian era cast white metal cutlery form handle decorated with stylised foliate design. The hilt has an oval finger guard. The 5 ½” long, steel spear point Bowie blade has staining consistent with age. One side of the blade is signed by the maker ‘Lingard Superior Cutlery’. The knife measures 10” overall. The original red hue open top leather scabbard has German Silver or brass throat mount and chape. The leather has tooled foliate decoration. All leather and stitching are intact with just light surface wear. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19697

£375.00