Postby burnisherboy » Sun Mar 18, 2012 7:06 am
Eternal thanks as ever for all your work! I find page 9 very interesting with its graded prices for ivory handled ware. Should we assume that these were heavily discounted because of oversupply, change of fashion or because the major American market was severely restricted because of the financial crisis of 1836-8? It would be very interesting to see examples of a Savory knife with any of the alphabetical coding still visible on the steel. Burnisherboy