George Nixon and Sons Celebrated Cutlery Dagger 160+ years old

  

George Nixon and Sons Celebrated Cutlery Dagger 160+ years old. COMES WITH ORIGINAL TIN SHEATH.

THIS KNIFE IS IN GOOD CONDITION. The horn handle scales have some worm eaten spots. And the blade has some pitting.

I GUARANTEE THIS KNIFE TO BE AS DESCRIBED. By 1845, his address was Mount Pisgah (Crookes).

This would have been Nixon's residence and office rather than a factory. In 1851, he described himself as a'cutlery master employing one man' (Census, 1851). His son, Joseph, was a commission agent. His second daughter, Sarah Ann, married Charles Platts.

By the mid-1850s, George still resided at Mount Pisgah, but had a working address with his son in Headford Street. In 1860, a directory had an advertisement for the firm. However, in the following year the partnership ended, probably because of George's retirement.

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