{"id":11963,"date":"2025-01-13T17:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T00:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flylabel.com\/index.php\/product\/pocketknife-littlemesters-of-sheffield-trevor-albert-2-blade-rosewood-kp-1624\/"},"modified":"2025-01-18T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T00:18:19","slug":"pocketknife-littlemesters-of-sheffield-trevor-albert-2-blade-rosewood-kp-1624","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/flylabel.com\/index.php\/product\/pocketknife-littlemesters-of-sheffield-trevor-albert-2-blade-rosewood-kp-1624\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocketknife Littlemesters of Sheffield Trevor Albert 2-Blade Rosewood KP-1624"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is a handmade item from the Littlemesters of Sheffield<\/b> bladesmiths, which have a rich history of making quality knives for over a century. The late Mr. T.W.  Ablett <\/b>made knives in small batches of 20 for collectors and regular uses. Everything was built from attention to details and his love of knifemaking. The double Brass Bolsters is one of the more fancier knives he built by hand. These knives don’t come around much on Ebay, with only three other models offered in the last 10 years. The closed length is 4″ <\/b>with 3.9 oz total weight. It comes in the original factory box and signed certificate from Trevor Ablett. In my opinion, it is in excellent condition nearing ‘like new’.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Trevor William Ablett<\/b> was born at Beighton, Derbyshire, in 1942.  His father worked on the land in Lincolnshire, but moved to Sheffield to work for a plating firm in West Street.  Trevor owed his start in knife making in 1957 to his uncle Emil Berek<\/a>, who made folding knives in Athol Road.   Trevor acquired experience in Berek\u2019s workshops and worked for razor maker, C. Myers<\/a>, in a workshop on the floor below.  However, Trevor credited Harry Ragg \u2013 a long-serving cutler, who worked for Berek \u2013 as the man who taught him most.  After Emil\u2019s death in 1974, Trevor and Harry continued to make folding knives, first at Stag Works in John Street, then by 1980 at Joseph Elliot<\/a>, Sylvester Street.  Later Trevor moved to Egerton Lane and began sharing a workshop with Bowie maker, Reg Cooper<\/a> (who died in December 2022, aged 91).<\/font><\/p>\n

They moved next to Edmund Road in Little Sheffield.   Finding their upper-story workshop involved walking up a car ramp, then through a showroom filled with expensive cars.  The contrast with Trevor\u2019s and Reg\u2019s workshop \u2013 with its buffing wheels, hammers, vices, and air of the nineteenth century \u2013 could not have been greater.  Trevor specialised in folding knives, which were sold to be used.   He made dozens of attractive (but modestly priced) one\/two-blade pocket knives a week.  They were hafted in natural materials, such as wood, stag, and buffalo horn.  Like many cutlers, he was extraordinarily dedicated to his craft.  Long past retirement age, he worked a twelve-hour day, starting at 7.00 am, and told this author that he had never been abroad.   He was profiled in The Guardian, 23 January 2010.  Trevor and Reg featured in Great British Railway Journeys with Michael Portillo (Series 2, Episode 14, screened BBC 2 on 22 June 2012).  <\/font><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

I offer combined shipping.<\/font><\/b> <\/font> E-mail me, if you have any outstanding bids or additional purchases you want to combine as shipment goes out daily from Monday-Saturday via mostly USPS. I am flexible with your needs for shipping, which is why there are few rules for you to remember. You buy and I ship at the lowest Ebay shipping cost within 24 hours.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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