Carpenters “Race” knife Sold
A Victorian carpenters “Race” (timber marker). Made from steel with an antler handle, the blade inscribed “T.Turner & Co, cutlers to his majesty. Encore. Sheffield England”
See http://www.sheffieldcutlerymap.org.uk/location/thomas-turner-co/ for information on Turner & Co
”Lastly, the various points for cross cutting the tree were scratched with a race, a sort of knife with point turned back and sharpened at the bend for this purpose…”
From – The Wheelwrights Shop by George Strut, Cambridge university press 1934
Closed 3½” long / 9cm
Open 6¼” long / 16cm
Sold