Scottish Edinburgh Hallmarked Silver Sgian Dubh by Thomas Kerr Ebbutt dated 1956

Here on offer is a fine example of a vintage Scottish Sgian Dubh with solid silver fittings that where made by the Edinburgh silversmith, Thomas Kerr Ebbutt, dated to 1956.

The hilt has a beautiful hand carved ebony wood grip with an interlaced design that is topped with a silver crown pommel set with a beautiful undamaged yellow cairngorm stone.

At the base of the hilt is a solid silver collar, which has an ornate interlaced design on the front.
The collar fits snuggly over the silver scabbard throat fitting and the red felt scabbard buffer is still in place.

The short stainless steel blade has small “blood” groves on both sides and a faceted top edge along half its length.

It has the words STAINLESS STEEL etched onto the reverse of the blade and it retains its original bright mirror finish on both sides.
The blade has some very light runner scratches and the very tip seems to have been rounded off, albeit it may have been originally made like this?

The black leather-covered scabbard is in excellent condition. Both the silver scabbard fittings have an ornate Celtic pattern on the front along with a plain shield shaped cartouche on top mount.

On the reverse of the top mount it is stamped, with the words:

MADE IN SCOTLAND

along with a full set of Scottish hallmarks and a maker’s mark.

The clear hallmarks show it was assayed in Edinburgh (Thistle and Castle marks), with a date letter “A” for the year 1956.

There is a maker’s mark “T.E” refers to Thomas Kerr Ebbutt of St David's Square, Edinburgh.

Thomas Ebbutt started in 1896 and died in 1921. He registered this mark in 1903 and his company continued in business until 1977 when, it was bought by Hamilton & Inches.
They continued to use the T.E mark until circa 2000.

The sgian-dubh is a small, single-edged knife (Gaelic sgian) worn as part of traditional Scottish Highland Dress along with the Kilt.
Originally used for eating and preparing fruit, meat, and cutting bread and cheese - as well as serving for other more general day to day uses such as cutting material and protection, it is now worn as part of traditional Scottish dress tucked into the top of the kilt hose with only the upper portion of the hilt visible.

The knife in the scabbard measures 7.75” (19.6cm) long with the blade measuring 3.6” (9.2cm).

With the scabbard it weighs 61g.


This is a truly fine example of a Sgain Dubh by Thomas Kerr Ebbutt.

Please see my pictures for the details of the condition, which complement this description.

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