Beschreibung:

with curved axe-blade formed with a sharp leading edge and struck with the maker?s details and ?VR? divided by a crown on one face, tapering rear pean, iron haft with moulded neck, fitted on each face with a pair of tapering rounded hardwood panels with chequered grips over the lower portion and pierced at the base, complete with its leather cover with belt loop (strap incomplete) 28.0 cm Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 61. 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.