29th Jun, 2023 12:00
The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives
761
A FIGHTING KNIFE, S. W. SILVER & CO., CORNHILL, LONDON, CIRCA 1880
with robust Caucasian style broad blade of flattened-diamond section formed with a long slender off-set fuller on each face, rectangular ricasso signed on each face, German silver elliptical guard grooved on one face to accommodate a retaining clip, and finely chequered horn scales retained by six rivets, in its German silver-mounted leather-covered wooden scabbard, the chape engraved with three lines and with bud-shaped finial, locket engraved en suite, with a button for suspension and signed in a panel at the front (spring retaining clip missing), 22.7 cm blade
Stephen Winkworth Silver & Co was founded in 1823 and are recorded at 66 and 67 Cornhill in 1848. They supplied clothing to the military and travellers as well as furniture and later sporting goods. By 1900 they had branches in Liverpool, Bradford, Birmingham, Sheffield, Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin and works at Silvertown and at Persan-Beaumont, France.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sold for £600
with robust Caucasian style broad blade of flattened-diamond section formed with a long slender off-set fuller on each face, rectangular ricasso signed on each face, German silver elliptical guard grooved on one face to accommodate a retaining clip, and finely chequered horn scales retained by six rivets, in its German silver-mounted leather-covered wooden scabbard, the chape engraved with three lines and with bud-shaped finial, locket engraved en suite, with a button for suspension and signed in a panel at the front (spring retaining clip missing), 22.7 cm blade
Stephen Winkworth Silver & Co was founded in 1823 and are recorded at 66 and 67 Cornhill in 1848. They supplied clothing to the military and travellers as well as furniture and later sporting goods. By 1900 they had branches in Liverpool, Bradford, Birmingham, Sheffield, Cardiff, Bristol, Manchester, Newcastle, Portsmouth, Glasgow, Belfast and Dublin and works at Silvertown and at Persan-Beaumont, France.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Auction: The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives, 29th Jun, 2023
