Edmund Bell pocket fruit knife, 1891

Description

As a boy Edmund Parrott lived with Jonathan Bell who had established a fine reputation for making folding silver fruit knives during the 1840s and 1850s.

Edmund adopted the name Bell by the time he had reached the age of majority and after Jonathan’s death in 1877 he registered his own silver mark and continued making fruit knives until just after the turn of the century.

This substantial Edmund Bell knife measures just over 3 inches closed and is made with brass liners, barley-twist mother-of-pearl scales, matching bolsters, a tooled silver back bar sleeve and a solid silver spearpoint blade.

The blade has four hallmarks, the Sheffield crown, lion passant, date letter “Y” for 1891 and the maker’s mark “EB”.

This pocket fruit knife is in excellent condition.