Got this as a gift from Mrs P a while back and just noticed it’s a blade grafted onto a lunch service knife or fish knife handle. Can’t read the maker’s mark but can make out the Q Victoria duty mark. Blade is sheffield 1921, but handle is at least 30 years earlier. Was Richard Richardson pulling a fast one? Handle marks are so faint as to be almost deliberately rubbed. Ive seen this a lot on salad servers to match mass produced flatwear canteens but not letter openers.
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Robert Rutland, 1819? Just guessing.
Definitely a marriage. I agree that the ferrule has a Victoria duty mark and it also appears to have a Sheffield crown of the pattern used, with a Victoria mark, between about 1840 and 1860. Earlier marks would have had the date letter and crown combined as the ferrule is a small piece.
I suspect that the marriage has probably been done fairly recently with a normal 1921 Richardson blade being cut down to become a letter opener blade.
Phil
Yes, thank you. Makes sense. Isn’t it odd though, that the blade is also sterling?
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