George Woodhead & Sons
George Woodhead (and his partner, Hartley) are best known for producing Bowie knives during that trade’s classic era – in other words, before the American Civil War. The knives were classic, too, with half-horse, half-alligator pommels, coffin-shaped (but shortened) handles in pearl and ivory, and simple, clean lines to the blade. By 1839, Woodhead & Hartley was active as a spring knife manufacturer in Bower Spring. In 1841, the firm was listed in Lambert Street, where George Woodhead was en....
