each struck with the maker’s details at the ricasso, including eleven with ‘Real Pampa’ blades; the remainder by various makers including Lockwood, Elliott and Allen, fourteen with ivory or ivorine scales, six with natural staghorn scales, three with tortoiseshell scales, one with polished horn scales and one with wooden scales, mounted on board with stock numbers in ink and the makers details in gilt letters, with cover, 40.8 x 35.5 cm

Provenance

David Hayden-Wright (1936-2006)

Literature

David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 200.

The apparent founder of Lockwood Brothers Ltd was John Lockwood of Ecclesfield, who was apprenticed to file maker John Burgin and became a Freeman in 1767, when he was assigned the mark ‘CX’. In 1861 Lockwoods employed 500 staff and in 1865 they expanded their premises at Arundel Street. The enterprise became more closely involved in cutlery and trade catalogues show a wide range of knives and pocket cutlery with an emphasis on complicated sportsman’s patterns, hunting and skinning knives. By 1862 German counterfeiting had forced the company to adopt another mark: a Pampas rhea with the words ‘REAL KNIFE’ and ‘PAMPA’. The firm’s main trade mark was ‘C:X’. Lockwood’s also acquired a Maltese cross ‘L’ mark.

This lot is offered with UK Ivory Act 2018 certificate number HNFUP6XT.