Beschreibung:

WITH ASSOCIATED SILVER-MOUNTED BELT, LONDON, 1884 with fixed blade (polished) with clipped-back point and filed back-edge, struck with the maker?s details, ?Wingfield Knife? and ?VR? divided by a crown, with four folding elements including corkscrew, button hook and awl, further accessories including tweezers, pincers, scissors and pricker concealed in the German silver pommel, chequered horn scales, in its silver-mounted leather scabbard with marks of Thomas Johnson the locket with the initials ?AE? for Albert Edward divided by the crowned Prince of Wales feathers within the collar of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, complete with associated silver-mounted leather belt formed in five sections, with a clip for attachment, and the tip stamped on the inside ?Thornhill & Co., 144 Bond Street, London? 22.0 cm overall (the knife) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 94-5. Probably made for presentation by Albert Edward, later Edward VII, when Prince of Wales during his tour of India in 1875-6. Thornhill & Co. are recorded 1820-1912. This well-known firm exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the Paris Exhibition in 1878, and the Sportsman?s Exhibition in Islington in 1882. For a full history see Culme 1987, pp. 448-9. Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.