Anyone here familiar with Sheffield maker W.Mount & Son ?
There doesn't seem to be much info about them on the internet, or i'm looking in the wrong places.
My educated guess would be that the W.Mount & Son is from about the same time frame as my Wade & Butcher Boone model (1920's - 1930's), and was made with boy scouts /or hunters in mind.
(https://i.ibb.co/4wPCGCZP/image.png) (https://ibb.co/1Y8B5Bf8)
(https://i.ibb.co/Z1KwS3cZ/image-1.png) (https://ibb.co/6Jbp82Dd)
(https://i.ibb.co/cn9BBjJ/image-6.png) (https://ibb.co/950DD7n)
(https://i.ibb.co/mrsW3wdc/image-2.png) (https://ibb.co/JWLJ948s)
(https://i.ibb.co/JRWvWf8D/image-3.png) (https://ibb.co/N6g9g8fc)
The knife itself is definitely a quality piece, with especially the handle construction being strikingly similar to my Wade & Butcher model.
(https://i.ibb.co/zV47vwp7/image-5.png) (https://ibb.co/m5cXW7kX)
(https://i.ibb.co/bgMXT729/image-4.png) (https://ibb.co/8DL9qXdZ)
On Bladeforums member Jack Black had this to say:
"The knife is one of the Sheffield 'Town Pattern's, made by hundreds of firms, and still made in Sheffield today.
It is one of the patterns described in Sheffield as a 'Whittle-Tang Bowie'. Tens of thousands were sold to Boy Scouts, and so they were sometimes referred to as 'Scout Knives', with at least one early maker (Maleham & Yeoman) etching the blade 'Scouts Woodcraft Knife'.
W.Mount also made Girl Guide Knives, a small folder with a Sheepsfoot blade and Marlin Spike, of which I have an example, but they seem to have been an obscure company."
Just finished with a bit of TLC and hand regrinding the blade to it's original full convex zero edge shape again.
Based on this i suspect it's also crucible steel (much more wear resistant than comparable German blades), and i wouldn't be surprised if the steel has a certain amount of tungsten carbides in it, or something similar.
It definitely wants to be sharp. (like reverse chest hair whittling sharp with an 800 grit SiC finish)
(https://i.ibb.co/4RFNNJ0S/image.png) (https://ibb.co/Df1KKLjM)
(https://i.ibb.co/Kck1C2Hc/image-1.png) (https://ibb.co/DPyq39nP)
(https://i.ibb.co/wNc2YHz0/image-2.png) (https://ibb.co/JR3SCLsB)
(https://i.ibb.co/0jcqDSS7/image-3.png) (https://ibb.co/mCGJDwwj)
(https://i.ibb.co/VY5xhNbc/image-10.png) (https://ibb.co/9HShfvBk)
(https://i.ibb.co/bgMg3Ym9/image-6.png) (https://ibb.co/RpkpStbw)
(https://i.ibb.co/CLk3x5j/image-5.png) (https://ibb.co/6Q376RK)
(https://i.ibb.co/Dx0Xmzf/image-7.png) (https://ibb.co/nHx246M)
(https://i.ibb.co/cX7GcMsm/image-11.png) (https://ibb.co/JFMfR0Sh)
(https://i.ibb.co/7dKs2Jcn/image-9.png) (https://ibb.co/nNjxzs27)
(https://i.ibb.co/HThHrWp6/image-8.png) (https://ibb.co/0ysGfgVT)
(https://i.ibb.co/BH9RJyyd/image-4.png) (https://ibb.co/V0s8Gggr)
A few pics i took for my own archive:
(https://i.ibb.co/ZkzNQ8Y/GEDC2798.jpg) (https://ibb.co/9CHGxTV)
(https://i.ibb.co/Y4Bq3yzR/GEDC2797.jpg) (https://ibb.co/sp9M260m)
(https://i.ibb.co/3YsKm0hm/GEDC2800.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vvB94Jz4)
(https://i.ibb.co/YTyn6KFg/GEDC2802.jpg) (https://ibb.co/LhJjMqXK)
(https://i.ibb.co/9mHSkmmM/GEDC2801.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cKhVSKKm)
(https://i.ibb.co/DPTt9qsZ/GEDC2803.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dsxrPh1R)
(https://i.ibb.co/h1wHdD5j/GEDC2799.jpg) (https://ibb.co/k6v0DQnf)
(https://i.ibb.co/5gsS13qX/GEDC2796.jpg) (https://ibb.co/MxPtgHqy)
(https://i.ibb.co/bVWhs11/GEDC2810.jpg) (https://ibb.co/vWw5311)