IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND POCKET KNIVES, SCISSORS, AND EVERY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF CUTLERY
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Matthewman, junior, of Headford Street,
Sheffield, in the County of York, Cutlery Manufacturer, for the Invention
of "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND POCKET KNIVES, SCISSORS, AND EVERY OTHER
DESCRIPTION OF CUTLERY."
Sealed the 27th July 1860, and dated the 30th January 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Matthewman
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 30th January 1860.
I, BENJAMIN MATTHEWMAN, junior, of Headford Street, Sheffield, in the
County of York, Cutlery Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND POCKET KNIVES, SCISSORS, AND
EVERY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF CUTLERY," to be as follows:-
This Invention consists in inserting photographs or pictures of any
description in the handles or blades of knives, scissors, and every other
description of cutlery, and is effected in the following manner :-The photo-
graphs are taken in the usual way, either on glass, paper, or other substance,
and are then placed or inserted in a recess or opening made for the purpose in
any desired part of the handle or blade of the article, and are fastened or
secured therein by rivets, screws, expanding rims, cements, or any other more
convenient mode, according to the description of handle or blade for which the

page_text: photograph is required. Other pictures may be inserted in like manner,
thereby ornamenting and improving the appearance of all descriptions of cutlery
ware.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Matthewman in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th July 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
MATTHEWMAN, junior, of Headford Street, Sheffield, in the County of York,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Benjamin Matthewman, junior, Her special licence that I, the said Benjamin
Matthewman, junior, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said Benjamin Matthewman, junior, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from
time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed,
should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man,
an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN PEN AND POCKET KNIVES, SCISSORS, AND
EVERY OTHER DESCRIPTION OF CUTLERY," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said Benjamin Matthewman, junior, my executors or adminis-
trators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause
the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calender
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Matthewman, junior, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in inserting photographs or pictures of any
description in the handles or blades of knives, scissors, and every other
description of cutlery.
In order to explain my said Invention as completely as possible, I now

page_text: proceed to describe the best means I am acquainted with for carrying the
same into practical effect as follows:-
The photographs are taken in the usual way, either on glass, paper, or other
substance, and are then placed or inserted in a recess or opening made for the
purpose in any desired part of the handle or blade of the article, and are
fastened or secured therein by rivets, screws, expanding rims, cements, or any
other convenient mode, according to the description of
for which the photograph or other picture is required.
description or copies taken by any process may be inserted in like manner,
thereby ornamenting and improving the appearance of all descriptions of
cutlery ware.
handle or blade
Pictures of any
Having now fully described the nature and object of my said Invention of
Improvements in Pen and Pocket Knives, Scissors, and every other
description of Cutlery," together with the manner in which the same is to be
performed, I would remark, in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict
myself to any particular description of picture, nor to the process employed for
taking such pictures or copies therefrom, nor to any particular mode of
fastening such pictures within the handles of knives or other articles of cutlery,
as many means may be adopted for the same purpose without in any way
departing from the principle of my Invention; but what I claim as my
Invention intended to be secured to me by the herein in part recited Letters
Patent is, the ornamenting of pen and pocket knives, razors, scissors, and
other articles of cutlery, in the manner herein-before described, for the
purpose set forth.
In witness whereof I, the said Benjamin Matthewman, junior, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twentieth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
SAMUEL COPLEY,
Sheffield.
BENJAMIN MATTHEWMAN, JUNE. (L.S.)