Hi guys, Calling all knife collectors! I didn't know a thing about knives until these were found by chance up in the rafters of my mum's garage! 4 boxes in total! What a treasure to find. I'd love any and all info about them! Here's the research I've managed to do on them:

This is an (antique?) boxed set of half a dozen folding/pocket knives (presumed unused) manufactured by LOCKWOOD BROTHERS, Sylvester St., Sheffield. A subsidiary company of Joseph Elliot & Sons (Sheffield) Ltd.
The total length of each knife with blade extended is approx. 15.5cm. The length of the blade is 5cm (not including the stamped hilt part).
I have learned these are Ettrick knives.

The box has the words Real Knife Pampa with the associated Rhea bird logo which according to my research was used Circa 1886-1919
It has the word Stag in bottom corner referring to the handle material.
It also has the handwritten 1/2 Doz (referring to the no. of knives) plus a parts number: Z369

Each blade is stamped with: C+X Lockwood Brothers Sheffield, and etched with the 'Young's Sheep Dips' company name for which they were clearly produced.
(Young's Sheep Dips was a product sold by the international manufacturer: Robert Young & Co Ltd. Glasgow. The NZ branch of Young's Sheep Dips Ltd, was in Petone, Wellington which would explain why these knives were discovered by my mother in the rafters of her old garage).

As is clear from the photographs, the blades are quite rusty and the box rather tattered due to limited protection from moisture up in the garage rafters.
I've not attempted to clean the rust off as I wasn't sure if this would affect the value of the knives.

The blades are sharp and very pointy and open/close tightly which leads me to believe further that these were unused and have remained in this tattered wee box for possibly over a hundred years.
They are what I would describe as 'full tang' and each knife has 3 small nails or rivets attaching the handle to the blade.

I'm not a knife collector so have not much knowledge on what is collectable and what isn't. But I thought someone on here would get a kick out of seeing them