29th Jun, 2023 12:00
The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives
779
A SMALL AXE, THORNHILL, LONDON, LAST QUARTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY
with curved axe-blade formed with a sharp leading edge and struck with the maker’s details and ‘VR’ divided by a crown on one face, tapering moulded rear pean with the letter ‘R’ beneath an Earl’s coronet for branding, iron haft with moulded neck and fitted with a pair of tapering rounded hardwood panels with finely chequered grips over the lower portion, 30.5 cm
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 59.
Thornhill & Co. are recorded 1820-1912. This well-known firm exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Paris Exhibition in 1878, and the Sportsman’s Exhibition in Islington in 1882. For a full history see Culme 1987, pp. 448-9.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sold for £500
with curved axe-blade formed with a sharp leading edge and struck with the maker’s details and ‘VR’ divided by a crown on one face, tapering moulded rear pean with the letter ‘R’ beneath an Earl’s coronet for branding, iron haft with moulded neck and fitted with a pair of tapering rounded hardwood panels with finely chequered grips over the lower portion, 30.5 cm
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 59.
Thornhill & Co. are recorded 1820-1912. This well-known firm exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Paris Exhibition in 1878, and the Sportsman’s Exhibition in Islington in 1882. For a full history see Culme 1987, pp. 448-9.
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
