with folding locking main blade signed at the ricasso, button hook, leather borer, and corkscrew, chequered horn scales with concealed ruler, scissors and combined tweezers and lancet, German silver loop and inscribed escutcheon, 15.0 cm (closed) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 214. 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.
with folding locking main blade signed at the ricasso, button hook, leather borer, and corkscrew, chequered horn scales with concealed ruler, scissors and combined tweezers and lancet, German silver loop and inscribed escutcheon, 15.0 cm (closed) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 214. 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.
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