Detail of carved knife showing IXL feature
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Detail of carved knife showing IXL feature
Image: © Colin Vosper Taken: 5 Mar 2013
A curious detail, only just visible in the photo, was added to the knife blade - the letters IXL which Hems adopted for his own self-promotion (inditing his proud boast... namely:- "I excel"). The letters, with an asterisk as in I*XL, were initially a corporate mark formally registered to his mother's Wostenholm family who ran a large and very successful Sheffield firm of cutlers. Image www.eggintongroup.co.uk/history/the-history-of-george-wostenholm.html Harry Hems as a young boy had been unsuccessfully apprenticed to his grandparent's firm of cutlers but abandoned it to take up an apprenticeship with a Sheffield woodcarver.
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