Denhams Auction Catalogue

for our Antique, Fine Art and Collectables auction held on Wednesday 28th of February 2018

Lot No Description Est Image
193 Three folding medical instruments including 1 ivory handled spring lockback stamped Fergusion 21 Giltspur Street 1846-69 and 2 slide lock handle stamped J Gray & Son Sheffield 40-60
194 Four coin knives comprising 2 small Art Deco knives marked Inglocure Paris the blades tamped M.SHVIR, a Spanish coin knife stamped IPAYA and a St Christopher made by Hickok USA 60-80
195 6 advertising/bartender/champagne knives including a Dry Monopole knife stamped John Watts Sheffield, a Fr Krote champagne bottle knife, an Orsat wine knife stamped Kaufmann and a bottle opener knife stamped YAX 60-80
196 A 1950's Mau Mau Terrorist Panga machete with 35cm double edge blade contained in a red dyed scabbard, the knife handle skin covered 30-50
197 6 advertising/souvenir knives including a World Cup Sheffield 1966 knife stamped Joseph Rodgers, a British Empire Expo knife, a Bulldog Guinness knife stamped G C Shaw High Holborn 60-80
198 3 early 20th Century shoe knives, 2 with grips in the form of shoes and one knife in the form of a female stockinged leg 40-60
199 A small dagger with 7cm blade stamped William Rodgers, a multi bladed knife stamped G Butler & Co, a 2 bladed knife stamped Needham Brothers, 2 pocket knives stamped Wards and Wade & Butcher 60-80
200 6 embossed lobster and pen knives, a Swedish knife the blade stamped Emil Olsson Eskilstuna the handle showing the Swedish royal coat of arms and others stamped Solingen, Jowika, GML and Wilh.Niepenberg 60-80
201 A silver and mother of pearl interlocking fruit knife and fork Sheffield 1904 by William Needham 80-120
202 4 pruning/budding/grafting knives including a 3 bladed knife stamped Hugo Linder Solingen, a S Kunde & Son Dresden 30A10 and a Pfenninger Uetikon 40-60
203 5 advertising knives including a large knife and fork marked Bell (Swiss meats), a bottle knife marked Maggi, 2 other Swiss products and a Hoover building stamped H Fisher Sheffield 60-80
204 A Corsican vendetta knife and 2 multi bladed knives- German and Spanish both with graduated cartridge extractors 40-60
205 3 knives including an Indian/Sri Lanka Coir knife (rug weavers knife), a European penny knife with folded horn handle and makers mark on blade and a variant of a Ronchetto Valtellinese knife with a ratchet locking sickle blade and olive wood handle 50-80
206 A Puma 1769 cased commemorative knife with stag horn handle and etched blade engraved with gold, complete with certificate no. 1269 of 1769 200-300
207 3 large pocket knives including a horn handled 2 bladed knife stamped ROBtKLAS, a hand made single blade lock back knife by Falcon and a 2 blade corkscrew lock back 40-60
208 A German hunting knife with worked blade back, stag horn handle, white metal bolster and end cap, a small hunting knife and 2 sheath knives - 1 with bone handle and saw back blade 40-60
209 A Norwegian long camping knife, Sami people style marked Lapplandsknives Helle Norge with birch hilt, brass fittings and deep leather scabbard together with a Helle skinning knife 60-80
210 A German multi tool kit pre 1952 German DRGM design reg, stamped BONSA and a French tool knife stamped KTK 50-80
211 7 French multi blade knives, all stamped with brace and VILEBREQUIN, each knife has a horn handle and a different combination of blades or size (these knives came from a factory which closed down in 1926 and are in new and unused condition) together with a section of original box 80-120
212 Derek Jackson "Victorinox Original Schweizer Offiziersmesser" (in German) - the story of Victorinox knife production with illustrations together with Wolfgang Rausch "Das Messer Waffe Und Werkzeug" 30-50
213 A "Goins' Encyclopedia of Cutlery Markings" by J & C Goins and "The Standard Knife Collectors Guide" - 2nd edition by Roy Ritchie and Ron Stewart 40-60
214 Horst A Brunner "Klappmesser aus zwei Jahrtausenden" together with "Das Messer" by Mandel and Rausch, both books contain good knife photographs 40-60
215 Rafael Martinez Del Peral Forton, a signed edition "La Navaja Espanola Antigua" (in Spanish) with many illustrations and guide to makers marks, an essential book for any Navaja knife collector 80-100
216 Ben Kelley Jr. "The Complete Book of Pocket Knife Repair" together with Gerald Witcher "Counterfeiting Antique Cutlery" 50-75
217 Bernard Levine "Levine's Guide to Knives and Their Values" 4th edition, an essential book for knife identification together with a Remington No.5 catalogue 60-80