Lot 299: A Collection of Eight Advertising Pen Knives

A group of eight folding pocket knives featuring various British commercial advertising. The collection includes a white celluloid handled knife with blue lettering for Wills’s Capstan; a white celluloid knife for Buchanan’s with the reverse side featuring the Black & White Whisky two dogs graphic and the text The Unexcelled Black & White Aged and Quality Whisky; a cylindrical cream handled pen knife for Albert’s Basic Slag for all Farm Crops with a London E.C. address to the reverse; a tapered metal handled knife for H. Batten-Jones Sculptor, the reverse with advertising for Tong’s Funeral Services Ltd. Rhyl; a cylindrical cream handled knife for Salt’s Stout and Salt’s Pale Ale with red Maltese cross logo; a plain metal handled knife for Moseleys Food, reverse marked Wigglesworth Ltd. Westhoughton; a decorative relief metal handled knife for Old Original Scotch Whisky with thistle leaf motifs; and a flat metal handled knife for Alex. Ferguson & Co. Glasgow Scotch Wiskies. The knives feature a mixture of nickel silver, brass, and printed celluloid scales with steel blades in single and double-bladed configurations.