Headford & Co
© Ken Hawley Collection Trust - K.1990
The Royal cipher ‘Victoria Regina’ suggests that this knife was made before 1901. Identifying the maker is difficult, as an extensive search of Sheffield directories has failed to find Headford & Co. The name has, however, been found on other knives of this era. For example, on a Headford & Co ‘Real Green River Knife’ (which was an American pattern). Perhaps ‘Headford & Co’ was a brand and not a manufacturer’s name. Headford was coincidentally the name of a cutlery manufacturing street in Sheffield.