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Sheffield cutlery

Europe tradition · 5 examples · indicative market tier: Under $500 (entry level & living craft)

Beaver Falls Cutlery Company manufactured steel cutlery, razors, and pocketknives from 1866 to 1886 in Pennsylvania. The company was founded as Binns & Mason by skilled cutlers from Sheffield, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, as a small enterprise making pocketknives in Rochester, Pennsylvania. It briefly became The Pittsburgh Cutlery Company, then was purchased in 1867 by the Harmony Society and moved to Beaver Falls. Wikipedia →

Types & examples

Blue cutlery box for James Dixon, Sheffield
Blue cutlery box for James Dixon, Sheffield
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Vintage Pastry Forks Sheffield Eng "Loxley" pattern EPNS Silverplate
Vintage Pastry Forks Sheffield Eng "Loxley" pattern EPNS Silverplate
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Viners cutlery firm, Sheffield - geograph.org.uk - 4304227
Viners cutlery firm, Sheffield - geograph.org.uk - 4304227
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Sheffield, cutlery sculpture in metal gates - geograph.org.uk - 1292009
Sheffield, cutlery sculpture in metal gates - geograph.org.uk - 1292009
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John Watts Cutlery Works, Sheffield (East Face - 01)
John Watts Cutlery Works, Sheffield (East Face - 01)
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