Fit for a frontiersman - but which frontier?
UK: GIANT knives of the frontier period hold a special place in the heart of American collectors, and the late 19th century example by one of the leading Sheffield makers of Bowie-style knives for the American market – Brookes and Crookes – was eagerly contested by US bidders at Martyn Rowe’s Truro salerooms on May 26.
That they were bidding for a knife that had not been crafted for a pioneer of the West, but a coloni…