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This 75 blades knife was made for the Great Exhibition in 1851.




There were several multi-blades knives.
From the history of the company:
"In 1821 Stuart Wortley (then Member of Parliament for Yorkshire and later Lord Wharncliffe) presented John Rodgers to the Prince Regent at Carlton House. The knife maker presented to the Prince (the future George IV) a minute specimen of cutlery with 57 blades, which occupied only an inch[25mm] when closed".
A Sheffield worthy later wrote:
"A ludicrous incident occurred at this interview, which Mr Rodgers himself used to relate. The miniature knife of many blades fell in the act of presentation, amongst the thick pile of the carpet, and could not at the time be recovered. But the Prince took the accident with great good-humour, and gave substantial proof of his satisfaction by a liberal order for more useful articles".(Gatty, 1873).

And in 1822, King George IV presented to Rodgers its first Royal Warrant. Another fourteen royal dignitaries - followed over the next eighty years.