At the Great Exhibition (1851), William Oliver, ‘manufacturer’, displayed:
Case of cutlery, consisting of forty pieces of miniature cutlery, from 3/8 of an inch to 4 inches: the smallest pair will go through an ordinary tobacco pipe. Silver pistol. Handle table-knives, as manufactured in 1800, green ivory, round point; handle table-knives as manufactured in 1750. Venison-carvers and steel, set in elephants’ tusks of miniature size. Jones&rs....