Large 19th C Joseph Rodgers & Sons Spear Point Bowie The blade stamp marked 'V.R. Joseph Rodgers & Sons, cutlers to the Queen'. Nickel silver guard and pommel. The later with half alligator/horse decoration. Stag horn scale grips. (L39cm) Ex Billy Newbold Collection; Harry Schultz Collection; Harry Morton Museum.
PROVENANCE: From the collection of the late Warren Mallard
LITERATURE: 'A Sure Defence, the Bowie Knife Book' 1988, No.58 pp.44-45. Kenneth Burton.