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  List of web sites about Society and Culture: City Livery Companies
The Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers - The 22nd Company.
The Worshipful Company of Drapers - "The Master and Wardens and Brethren and Sisters of the Guild or Fraternity of the Blessed Mary the Virgin of the Mystery of Drapers of the City of London", the third, and so "Great" City Livery company.
Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators - The Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators was formed on 3rd November 1976 and is ranked No.87.
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 Livery Company - SquareMileWiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The 106 Livery Companies are trade associations based in the City of London, each known as the Worshipful Company of the relevant trade or profession.
The Livery Companies originally developed as guilds and were responsible for the regulation of their trades, controlling, for instance, wages and labour conditions.
Among the earliest companies known to have possessed halls were the Merchant Taylors and Goldsmiths in the 14th century, but neither theirs nor other companies' original halls remain; the few survivors of the Great Fire were destroyed, along with many reconstructed ones, during the Blitz.
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 Worshipful Company of Cutlers Encyclopedia Article @ TheWorshipper.com (The Worshipper)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers is one of the Livery Companies of the City of London.
The Company has lost a strong connection to its trade, which has shifted north to Sheffield, Yorkshire, where there is a similar association, the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire.
The Company's motto was originally "Pervenir a bonne foy", which later became "Pour parvenir a bonne foy", an Anglo-Norman phrase meaning "To succeed through good faith."
www.theworshipper.com /encyclopedia/Worshipful_Company_of_Cutlers   (404 words)

  
 Other Livery Companies
Today’s livery companies are not picturesque leftovers of history but living institutions, whose activities have been commended by successive Royal Commissions and hose liverymen assemble in Common Hall to carry out important functions in the elections of the City’s government and certain of its officers.
In certain companies the officers are known by different titles, for example, the Fishmongers have a Prime Warden instead of a Master, and the number of wardens may vary between two and four according to the size of the company.
The Worshipful Company of GrocersGuildable Manor of Southwark
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 Authors OnLine - The Collections of The Worshipful Company of Cutlers of London - LONDON-MADE KNIVES AND THEIR MARKS by ...
The collection of cutlery in the possession of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers of London ranges from stone age tools to the cutlery of today, from the cheapest of mass produced knives to exquisite items of gold and ivory encrusted with jewels.
Nevertheless, it should be borne in mind that cutlers in provincial towns such as Birmingham and Sheffield (and even the cutlers of Solingen in Germany) sometimes deliberately placed London marks on their own work before those cities gained their own high reputations.
It is known from family recollections of members of the Company that the remaining London cutlers were proud to have survived the hegemony of Sheffield and used the ‘London Made’ mark as a selling point indicative of quality.
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 The Company Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Company of Cutlers was established to regulate the cutlery industry in Hallamshire - one in which the majority of the population was involved.
The Company of Cutlers provides a focus for the promotion and support of local manufacturing industries and businesses and the Freemen represent a large base from which to establish links and networks for Sheffield industries.
Today, persons who apply to the Company and are suitably qualified are granted their 'Freedom' and admitted to the Commonalty of the Company on a half-yearly basis.
www.cutlers-hallamshire.org.uk /comptoday.htm   (338 words)

  
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 Antique Silver - Victorian silver Worshipful Company of Cutlers Livery Badge - Sanda Lipton
Above, is the Company's crest of a harnessed elephant bearing on its back a castle with two pennons.
Between the folds of the ribbon is a caduceus, the winged staff of Mercury entwined with two serpents.
The cutlers were an organised craft early in the 13th century.
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 Cutlery
Plastic cutlery is made for disposable use, and is frequently used in fast food or take-away outlets.
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers was one of the London livery companies, reflecting the importance of this trade in the Middle Ages.
The "Master Cutler" was the name of a train that ran between London's Marylebone railway station and Sheffield (the centre of the cutlery manufacture in the UK) during the 1950s and late 1960s.
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 myArmoury.com: English Swords 1600-1650
This regulation is recorded in the Cutlers' Company records of June 25, 1606, when at a Court of the Company were "summoned most parte of the forreyne workinge cutlers in and about the Citie and suburbs of London...
He went on to complain that the London Cutlers' Company had received orders to supply 4000 swords "which were for the most part old and decayed" although he had great quantities lying on his hands and was ready to deliver hi short tune any proportion his Majesty should have occasion to use.
This attack on the Cutlers was rejected by the Company; in their reply they alleged, "that the swords which he petitioneth to be received into the store and pretends to be blades of his own making, are all bromedgham (i.e.
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 Company histories
[Cutlers' Company] The Mark of the sword: a narrative history of the Cutlers' Company, 1189-1975, Tom Girtin.
[Cutlers' Company] Mesters to masters: a history of the Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, edited by Clyde Binfield and David Hey.
Published by authority of the Court of Assistants [of the Worshipful Company of Pewterers], 1978.
www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/britcoms.html   (2173 words)

  
 The Worshipful Company of Cutlers - Hall
House of the Cutlers’, mentioned in 1285 as being on or near the site of the present Mercers’ Hall, is the earliest recorded regular meeting place of the Cutlers.
The Company still holds the Conveyance of that Hall from the Trustees to the Company itself, dated 1451.
The Courtroom contains portraits of members of the Company who have served as Lord Mayor, and in the adjoining Dining Room hangs a portrait of Margaret Craythorne, the widow of John Craythorne, who was Master in 1560.
www.cutlerslondon.co.uk /hall.htm   (897 words)

  
 Cutlery - Victoria and Albert Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In England a cutler would have to prove himself as bladesmith and hafter (maker of handles) in order to obtain the freedom of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, gain his own mark and set up his own business.
Many cutlers acted as middlemen who bought blades from bladesmiths, handles from hafters and sheaths from sheathers.
Although cutlers were required by their guilds to be able to make a complete knife, handles of carved ivory, silver, bronze and glass were usually imported or made by specialist craftsmen.
www.vam.ac.uk /collections/metalwork/metalware/cutlery   (179 words)

  
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 Chef Cutlery
The "Master Cutler" was the name of a train that ran between London Marylebone and Sheffield (the centre of the cutlery manufacture in the UK) during the 1950s and late 1960s.
The Camillus Cutlery Company is one of the oldest knife manufacturers in the United States.
In 1873, the company restructured as ''Meyer & Kastor''.
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 Consumer Resources » Cutlery – One Spoon or Two   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is the name derived from the term “Cutler” who is a person skilled in making knives.
There used be a train called “Master Cutler” which was running between London Marylebone and Sheffield – centre of cutlery manufacture in England during the 1950 and late 1960s.
London Livery Company had one group named as Worshipful Company of Cutlers reflecting the importance of this trade.
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 018 - The Cutlers' Company   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Cutlers moved to Cloak Lane early in the 15th century and became owners of a Hall there in 1451.
The Cutlers lost their Hall again when it was compulsorily purchased by the District Railway in 1882.
The Company moved to Warwick Lane where a new Hall, designed by T Tayler Smith and with a terracotta frieze by Banjamin Creswick, was opened in 1887.
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 Flatware, Silverware
The first livery company (trade association) in England to receive a Royal Charter was in 1416 C.E. to the Worshipful Company of Cutlers.
This company of cutlers was at the center of the cutlery making business.
This livery company remains to this day in London, but has become more of a charitable organization than anything because most of the cutleries have moved to Sheffield, England, which has become the cutlery hub.
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 Worship News @ Worshipped.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This new bill broadens the ban to the funerals of all dead members of the Armed Forces.
Morning worship will continue to be held at 10:30 am Sunday, Dec. 10, 17, and 24.
During the informal worship at 8:15 am and contemporary service at 9:30 am, the Rev. Bob Clipp bring the message, "Disruptions.".
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 Best Cutlery
In September, 1876, the company closed due to poor sales, but the next month, Adolph Kastor started his own company, ''Adolph Kastor & Bros.'' on Canal Street in New York City, where he imported and distributed German-made knives.
By 1910, after adding new machinery, such as steam driven drop forge hammers and fly presses, and adopting new techniques, like using alumina grinding wheels, the Camillus Cutlery Company had about 200 employees, many of them German immigrants, and was producing close to a million knives a year.
In the 1920s the company introduced stainless steel to their production, and started making collectible character knives, which honored such famous people as George Washington, Babe Ruth, and Buck Rogers.
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 Amazon.com: Worshipful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Letters of Patent Granted to the Worshipful Company of Drapers, 1438-9 Giclee Print by English School, 18" x 24" by AllPosters.com
Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate (Paperback - Dec 1, 1995)
The Collections of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers: London-made Knives And Their Marks by Keith Hinde, John Herbert, and Claude Blair (Paperback - Jan 31, 2006)
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 Authors OnLine - Details for John Herbert
He is the author of many scientific papers and books and has written on Livery medals.
His family has a long association with the Worshipful Company of Cutlers and he has served as its Master.
The Collections of The Worshipful Company of Cutlers of London - LONDON-MADE KNIVES AND THEIR MARKS
www.authorsonline.co.uk /viewauthor.php?AuthorID=466   (82 words)

  
 Cutlers' Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name "Cutlers' Company" can refer to at least two trade associations:
The Worshipful Company of Cutlers, in London, chartered 1416.
The Company of Cutlers in Hallamshire, in Sheffield, founded 1624.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cutlers'_Company   (107 words)

  
 Ten out of 10 for Ag Tech student   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He went on to win the Fox Medal from the Worshipful Company of Cutlers for the best award candidate in this sector, as well as the Allan & Newton Memorial Prize for Mechanical Engineering Craft Practice, each of which was accompanied by a cheque for £500.
Ag Tech was the first agricultural engineering apprentice scheme of its kind to be introduced in the UK, in 1992, and won a National Training Award at the end of 1997, the only one ever made to an agricultural machinery company.
Altogether 201 apprentices have graduated through the scheme to date, covering both Ag Tech and the new Turf Tech programme for groundscare technicians, which was introduced in 2002.
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 Artists' Papers Register: Repository Artists
Worshipful Company of Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers of London
Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards of London
Use of the Artists' Papers Register is subject to copyright and other conditions: users must read this disclaimer before accessing the Register.
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 Elephant & Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Possible origin of this name/pub sign is the coat of arms of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers who of course used ivory for their knife handles.
Eric, who owns two other pubs in Wakefield, the Smiths Arms and the Grove Park, added "I am waiting to hear room my insurance company.
But after seven weeks of hard work and creative effort, every one at the Elephant and Castle are looking forward to a prosperous new era of trading.
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I also served on a number of senior Committees of the Bank of England, Treasury and CBI in London, Paris and Brussels, and until 2001 was a member of the International Board of the Paris Bourse, developing the Nouveau Marché.
I was Master of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers in 2002-2003 and am an active member of two Past Masters’ Associations.
My wife Anne is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Fletchers and a committee member of the ladies’ groups of my two Past Masters’ Associations.
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