W. Thornhill & Company
This Victorian metal-handled table knife is stamped ‘THORNHILL’, ‘LONDON’, with the Royal Cipher. It was probably made in Sheffield in about the 1890s. Thornhill’s traced its origins to 1734. Its address was New Bond Street, London, where it became a well-known retailer of cutlery and silverware. The owner, Walter Thornhill (1806-1887), had been born at Stoke Newington. He was stationer and rag merchant in the 1840s. In 1851, he was enumerate....
