MINT UNSHARPENED UNIQUE ANTIQUE 1800s 11 5/8” ETCHED CLIP BLADE SHEFFIELD BOWIE

Description: MINT UNSHARPENED UNIQUE ANTIQUE 1800s 11 5/8” ETCHED CLIP BLADE SHEFFIELD BOWIE MINT UNSHARPENED UNIQUE ANTIQUE 1800s 11 5/8” ETCHED CLIP BLADE SHEFFIELD BOWIE MINT UNSHARPENED UNIQUE ANTIQUE 1800s SHEFFIELD BOWIE KNIFE ~ LARGE 11 5/8” ETCHED CLIP BLADE ~ 16 5/8” OVERALL This is a hefty Bowie knife by a renown Sheffield Bowie Maker that weighs 14.4 ounces or 408 grams. This Bowie is hand forged, hand ground, hand fitted, hand polished, and hand etched using only simple hand tools by Master Cutlers. Overall length is 16 5/8” with an 11 5/8” long x 1 1/2" wide clip blade made from 3/16” stock that swells slightly to 1 9/16” at the beginning of the 4 1/4" blade top false edge to the blade tip. The ricasso is hot stamped in 2 lines, and also Sheffield England in 2 lines on the blade flat. The blade tip is full and there are no nicks or sharpening marks on the blade with all of its original signature Sheffield crocus of Iron polish intact. The blade has a couple of spots of untouched, desirable, naturally occurring black spidering with one near the blade tip that take a century + to form and demonstrates genuine age with light handling marks. The blade has a 6 3/4 x 1 1/4” etched panel on the front display side in a Victorian style scroll, leaf and flower pattern. The backside of the blade also has a similar shaped etched panel with what appears to be mystical symbols of unknown origin and meaning. The 1 9/16” wide x 1/8” thick German silver oval cross guard is tight, as is the hilt. The hilt is made from one piece of carved & shaped oxbone with a German silver ferrule. The hilt is 4 1/2" long x 1 1/8” wide at the swell center, and tapers from the 1 1/4" pommel end to the 11/16/” wide ferrule. The handle width also tapers from 11/16” wide at the pommel to 9/16” wide at the ferrule. The blade tang extends all the way through the hilt and is secured by peening the end with a small German silver grommet. As is common with a single large piece of natural material that shrinks over time, there is a naturally occurring age crack that verified the age of the Bowie and adds character, along with a couple of thin naturally occurring hairline age cracks and random variations in coloration from handling. The firm of Unwin & Rodgers began with James Rodgers (b.1758-d.1828) who established Rodgers & Co. James Rodgers was joined by Phillip Unwin (b.1800-d.1878) in 1825. By 1828, Unwin & Rodgers appeared in a Sheffield directory as a manufacturer of pen and pocketknives on Charles Street, Sheffield. Unwin & Rodgers export market was the burgeoning American trade, including Bowies for the California Gold Rush, American native trade knives to North America, Dirks and Bowies for the US Civil War, post-Civil War hunting knives, and ‘expensive show knives’. Note that even after James Rodgers died in 1828 at aged 60, the 3-year-old business remained as Unwin & Rodgers until the death of Unwin’s eldest son, Phillip H. Unwin in 1909 that ended the business. Sheffield cutlery made for export to America was marked with the Sheffield England mark after 1891. New York was the U.S. center for imports and had a large consortium of gun engravers, etchers, and Jeweler that would create custom made to orders on demand. Unwin & Rodgers’ New York agent was Charles Congreve, who had moved to America in 1849, and became IXL’s agent as well. This Bowie has a well centered, detailed, quality Victorian style etched blade front. The backside etched panel has unusual, large mystical symbols, and both etchings have slightly darker areas from handling and naturally occurring aging. The additional mystical symbols on the non-display side hilt are not engraved but acid etched, and applied at the same time as the back blade etch. Both appear to be of lesser quality than the front display side. This suggests this Bowie may have been imported with a factory front etched panel for the display side as an Exhibition or Display piece, and the back side was custom made to order and embellished by a retailer, jeweler, or cutler as a Presentation or Ceremonial Bowie knife that was made without a sheath. The mystical etched symbols are of unknown origin and meaning. This Bowie was created during the Golden Age of Sheffield Cutlery by Master cutlers, circa 1890’s. This handsome, large, heavy, quality, interesting, unusual and unique Bowie has lots of eye appeal, displays well, and would be perfect for any Bowie, Knife, Gentleman’s accoutrement, 1800’s, Sheffield Golden Age, mint condition collector, or advanced collector, aficionado and investor. An article written for this Bowie regarding the history of the maker and the Golden age available to the buyer. 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Price: 2695.5 USD

Location: Fairfield, California

End Time: 2024-12-02T21:19:35.000Z

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