Folding daggers from the Civil War are scarce by all standards. This one is super. Made and marked by R. Bunting & Son.
Robert Bunting was one of the first Sheffield makers of Bowie knives. He was listed in Radford Street in 1822. By 1828, he had moved to Regent Street and by 1833 was concentrating on knives for the American market, including ‘Self-defence knives’. In 1839, his trade advertisement listed American hunting knives and Bowies. At this time, Robert was working with his sons – Richard, George, and Abner. During the 1840s, Robert and Richard (who had been born in Stannington) continued working together manufacturing lock and sneck knives and dirks, besides table, pen and pocket cutlery. Several fine Bunting Bowie knives are pictured in Flayderman's Bowie Knife book.Robert Bunting, ‘table knife manufacturer’, Regent Street, died from ‘lumbago’ on 2 July 1850, aged 74.
The business passed to Richard. By 1856, he relocated (alongside his son, Henry) to Boston Works, Milton Street. The business became Richard Bunting & Son, Buntings continued in Milton Street during the 1860s, with an American agent in Platt Street, New York. After the American Civil War, the business declined. In 1869 the firm closed.

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