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THOMAS WILKINSON & SON,

Manufacturers of scissors to her majesty

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17, NEW CHURCH STREET, SHEFFIELD.

PRIZE MEDAL,

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AWARDED TO

THOMAS WILKINSON AND SON.

Class 21.

EXTRACTS.

WINDSOR CASTLE, December 14, 1848.

SIR HENRY WHEATLEY begs to acknowledge the receipt of a case, containing a Pair of Scissors forHer MAJESTY, which he has not failed to submit to THE QUEEN, and Sir Henry is desired to express Her Majesty’sAdmiration of their Workmanship and Execution, which reflects much credit on Messrs. WILKINSON.

WINDSOR CASTLE, October 16, 1840.

SIR,

I lose no time in acquainting you that I have presented the Case of Cutlery which you left with me toH. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT, and-that His Royal Highness has been pleased to accept it. It will give His RoyalHighness great pleasure to appoint you his Cutlers at Sheffield.

I am your most obedient Servant,

To Messrs. Wilkinson & Son,Sheffield.

(Signed)

G. E. ANSON.

FROM “ THE ART JOURNAL,” November 1850.—Messrs. Thomas Wilkinson & Son, (17, New Church Street,)are among the most ingenious of the scissor-makers of the town, and have adopted many new and useful improvements, asWell in the manufacture and form as in the applicability of their various implements. Our cuts will exhibit the taste andelegance of their finer and more delicate work, destined for the use of the fair sex ; but an equal amount of ingenuity of adifferent kind has been exerted upon articles of a coarser kind. The tailors’ scissors which they manufacture are remark-able for the peculiar merit of their general construction, and for the excellent manner in which they are adapted to theirnecessary uses. The best mode of giving strength and protection to each finger of the hand has been well considered, andthe scissor designed so that it may bo a most useful auxiliary to the workman, obeying his every want, and befitting his everywish. It is this strict attention to the minuties of each article among the many manufactured in Sheffield which gives thetown its position, and assures the confidence of the world in its varied fabrications in steel ; a character which commencedamongst us in the middle ages, and has been triumphantly maintained until the present day.—(See also “ Art JournalCatalogue, Exhibition, 1851.’’)

FROM “THE PATENT JOURNAL,’’ June 21, 1851. —In Scissors, Messrs. Wilkinsons, of New Church Street,Sheffield, occupy a leading position, both as regards correct taste, novelty of design, and excellence of workmanship. Theduplicate specimen of scissors, Manufactured by them for the Queen, with the ornamental part filed out of solid steel, haveattracted much notice, and are interesting specimens of what labour and ingenuity can effect.—Messrs. Wilkinson andSons have also carried the manufacture of shears to a high degree of perfection, specimens of which are exhibited.

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