29th Jun, 2023 12:00
The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives
762
A SMALL AXE, S. W. SILVER & CO., LONDON, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
with curved axe-blade formed with a sharp leading edge and struck with the maker’s details on one face, tapering rear pean, iron haft with moulded neck, fitted with a pair of tapering rounded hardwood panels with chequered grips over the lower portion and pierced at the base, complete with its leather cover embossed with the maker’s details and with two belt loops, 39.7 cm
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 62.
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 £380
with curved axe-blade formed with a sharp leading edge and struck with the maker’s details on one face, tapering rear pean, iron haft with moulded neck, fitted with a pair of tapering rounded hardwood panels with chequered grips over the lower portion and pierced at the base, complete with its leather cover embossed with the maker’s details and with two belt loops, 39.7 cm
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 62.
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
