BRITISH EMPIRE EPISODE ROYAL NAVY KNIFE. THE BOOK OF THE SAILOR KNIFE

Royal navy knife in 2WW " THE BOOK OF THE SAILOR KNIFE "

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 Looking at a British marking I've seen on eBay

 

 Who is together with the sailor in this photo

 

 And pulling the thread and pulling the thread again I have obtained this information From a very very rare knife to see at first it only had a bad photo

 From some sales pages on the internet

 The knife is rarely seen since it has 3 tools when 99.9 of them only had 2..

 I think that the colleague @gonzalo50 has one of those few test knives that later they did not make en masse in this case. with the blade pointed at a sword

 This one from the partner:

 English naval knife (Royal Navy Clasp Knife) from the 1930s.

 

 Another cut and paste from a fellow Australian

 When these knives were first released, they were fitted with a copper shackle.  Due to wartime needs, the copper shackles were replaced with steel sometime in 1941. Occasionally the knives are listed as WW2 and have the VOCAB number 21306 stamped on the tip.  This VOCAB number was not marked on RN knives until the mid-1960s.

 The knives shown here are from the oldest on the left to the most recent on the right.

 

 Here are the manufacturers' marks on the tangs of the knives.

 

 Humphries Radiant

 

 Joseph Rodgers

 1938 is the earliest known example of the RN pattern knife

 

 Joseph Rodgers

 

 Joseph Rodgers

 Venture, H.M. Slater

 Watts

 Markings of the manufacturers of said knives

 And already the one that is on the internet that I have only seen 2 of them

 It was some prototypes or some experiments...

 

 Interestingly very similar to that of the Irish Navy or the Belgian Navy

 And the one I found today

 I think it was a prototype that the British Admiralty did not release en masse, like the all-metal knives that they released in the 1940s, but later they were supplied to the army in the 1950s and the Navy in the 1980s.

 It has the bottle opener that was added in 45 - 46 - 47

 

 A photo where you can see the general marking

 I only had the PREMIER

 

 

 Francis Newton & Sons, Sheffield.

 Francis Newton was born around 1796, his son was a well-known grocer (probably Thomas Newton, Campo Lane).  This may have provided the capital to start his business.  By 1822, he was associated with John Greaves (Master Cutler, 1837) as Greaves & Newton, a merchant and manufacturer of tableware, pens and pocket knives, razors, and bronze founders.  The company was based on West Street, but by 1834 it was trading on Portobello Street.  One of the partners, Henry Greaves, died on February 13, 1835. John Greaves died on June 30, 1849.

 Francis Newton traded under his own name after about 1837, making tableware, pens and pocket knives, razors, and various tools.

 By the early 1850s, Francis had brought his sons Thomas Newton (c.1825-1892), Francis Newton Jun (c.1828-1904) and James Greaves Newton (1831-1878) into the company.

 In 1884, Newton took over the assets of the bankrupt Joseph & Robert Dodge steel, tool, and silverware business.

 The company's products were impressed with the corporate marks, "Premier", the figure of a swan with the word "Try" and "Juste Judicato" (Dodge's former brand).  A silver mark was registered in Sheffield in 1906, when the company adopted limited liability.  Newton has sold to the domestic market and to the Continent, particularly to Dutch and German customers.

 In the 20th century, the Newton marks were purchased by George Butler.  Newton's name survived and was still listed in directories in the late 1980s.

 According to Tweedale's Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers Directory by Geoffrey Tweedale.

 

 George Butler & Co., Sheffield.

 William Butler was registered in the 1774 and 1787 Trinity Street Directories, using the mark "BUTLER" (granted 1768).  According to Leader (1876), Butler was the largest employer in the trade between 1810 and 1814. By then the business was managed by George Butler and James Butler.  In the 1820s, G. & J. Butler was a dealer in "all kinds of Sheffield hardware".  George was the salesman and was described as an expert with the "ribbons", driving in tandem around the north of England and elsewhere on the company's business.  He lived in Upperthorpe and died there on May 5, 1833, at the age of 53.  James Butler, who lived in Western Bank, died on March 3, 1843, at the age of 57.  The company name became George Butler & Co.

 In the late 1840s the company was bought by William Henry Andrew and Albert George Andrew.  They were twins from Andrew's prosperous family, Furnace Hill and Westbar.  An 1849 advertisement described his company as a converter and refiner of steel, as well as making and selling a wide range of knives and tools.  The firm exhibited its cutlery at the New York Exposition in 1853.

 Around 1850, Henry George Rowe, a traveler born in Durham, joined the company as a partner.  He and Andrews' brother patented an improved method of attaching handles to knives and forks in 1853.

 In 1861, the usual workforce was over 50 years old, but that year's census noted that only 14 were currently employed.  However, in 1864 Butler's moved from Trinity Street to a larger building site on Eyre Street, once the location of Corsan, Denton and Burdekin.

 In 1881 the workforce numbered about 50 men, although the trade press claimed it had reached about 400 by 1887 (Sheffield Industries: Business Review, 1887).

 In the 1890s the company had a London office at No.60 Holborn Viaduct (near Joseph Rodgers, No.62).

 

 The company was based on the "BUTLER" brand name, which in the 1840s was commonly counterfeited.

 Butler's acquired the "ART" brand in 1861;  and then, around 1882, the Key brand (pic.) (registered 1681) of Steer & Webster.  Butler's also registered silver marks in 1872 and 1894. The "Special Cavendish Brand" trademark (granted 1885) was used on Butler's silver flatware.

 In 1870, Robert Belfitt (1842-1930) became the president.  He had been born in Whittington, in Derbyshire, and had been apprenticed to an iron founder.  HG Rowe had left the company around 1870. William Henry Andrew died on October 9, 1894, at the age of 74.  His brother, Albert George Andrew, died on February 16, 1908, at the age of 87.

 Belfitt remained in office for sixty years.  He was Master Cutler in 1891. He maintained Butler's reputation for his hand-forged pocket and table cutlery, both at home and in his main foreign markets in Australia and India.

 

 

 

 Butler's "Keen" razor was described in the press as a "distinctly special item": it was made by the firm's own workers, with the trade name derived from Shakespeare's Lost of Labour's Lost: "Sharp as the edge." of the invisible razor" an acid-etched signature line on some of their "Keen" razors, along with Shakespeare's head.

 Cutlery sets were produced for special occasions, including presentation sets for the Royal Family.  Mayordomo won award-winning medals at various exhibitions.

 Butler's had become a limited company in 1900. In the 20th century, Butler took over the trademark from Francis Newton.  Belfitt died on June 16, 1930.

 

 Butler's continued to produce a wide range of pocket knives and

 hand-forged luxury.  However, after World War II, it had difficulty adapting to the mass market and was finally liquidated in 1952.

 ...

 The last owner of the Butler brand is Arthur Price, who bought it in 1993.

 According to the materials of

 Sheffield Cutlery Manufacturers Directory.

 G. Tweedale.

 Merchant and manufacturer page, June 13, 1883.

 

 Another cut and paste from another colleague:

 Birmingham firm Arthur Price

 Family tree

 acquired the brand in 1993. (At the time, Sheffield was focused on knives and blades, while Birmingham's industry was more focused on forks and spoons).  Comments on the web suggest that, under Price's control, the quality is no longer what it used to be.  Still, in their defense, the Price company dates back to 1902. They were the first to make forks and spoons from chrome plate, the predecessor to stainless steel. They also had the distinction of being commissioned to create the cutlery for both the Titanic and 1912 as well as for the Concorde in 1976. I am indebted to strazors.com for much if the history of the company and the final two images.

 And some knives of said war

 The endowment in the years 20-30 ??

 other colleagues say that they were given from 10 to 40????

 

 The one above the Army without a punch

 The one below given in 41-42 to various positions in the Navy

 

 belongings of a British marine .. some changes and hopefully 2 uniforms