The Cutlers - Heritage

Cutlery - updated September, 2011

The Company displays a fine collection of cutlery including canteens, hunting knives, travelling knives, scissors and razors.  

It is home to the famous Norfolk Knife which was made by the Sheffield cutlers, Joseph Rodgers & Sons, for the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. It took two years to make, has over seventy blades, and was named in honour of the Duke of Norfolk, Lord of the Manor of Hallam.  The Norfolk Knife has been exhibited all over the world, winning medals from Chile to China.  The Knife is owned by Egginton Brothers, cutlery manufacturers in Sheffield, and is on loan to the Cutlers' Company. 

Recently, it was necessary to move the knife and its display case.  This allowed for a closer look at the knife, without the glass dome, and to get better images of it.  It can be seen just how large it is.  The blades were checked for any corrosion and surface dust was removed.

Photographs: Steve Brooks, Egginton Brothers Ltd., Sheffield.