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This is my go-to site for Sheffield indexes.

Using it can be a little tricky because names were sometimes misspelled or spelled with uncommon variations, but this should get you a solid majority...

Neil is exactly right (and knows even better than me) about Goins.

At this point, personally, I use any reference material as a starting point and then get back to original sources wherever...

Certainly that's happened to some of them. I have both a Wade & Butcher and a Greaves & Sons from the era, the W&B is stamped on the spine and the Greaves has their name directly on the blade, where,...

I'd guess it was made at some point between 1810 and 1830.

To my eye, the scales look like they've been heavily sanded to cause the 'ribbing'.

There are many firms that could likely have made...