Info On Vintage Carving Set

[Toe Cutter]

I spent several hours looking for info about this set and it's maker. All I could find were ebay and etsy listings for sets that are identical but made by different makers that i also could find no backstory about. All I've gathered so far is they were made sometime before 1930. I'm not looking for value as I know they aren't worth much. I'm just curious about the history of this sets and the maker.

 

[Wahoo88]

I have a similar looking set made by Latham & Owen, Sheffield, England. Unfortunately, I don’t know much about them. The knife takes an edge but doesn’t hold it.

 

[tltt]

http://www.14to42.net/quik01.html .

https://forgotten-ny.com/2011/09/griffon-shears/ .

Griffon Cutlery of NY, Massachusetts, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. They also imported cutlery from Italy and Germany. The Bridgeport, Conn knives look like Remingtons sometimes. The above will give a little more history, and show off their famous sign. Albert L. Silberstein retired in the mid 1920's, and his son Alfred took it over.

Cutlery seemed to be good to them -

https://www.brownstonedetectives.com/life-in-a-harlem-townhouse-1910/ .

 

[Danke42]

Well if there's a bunch of matches and they all have different brand names they're being made at one location and then jobbed out for those other brands who mark them and re-sell them.