Brand: Small items
A solid enamel plate with a light green base and white top from Ukraine. Fired in a traditional kiln, which results in slight variations of temperature and therefore colour and nature of finish. All our Ukrainian enamelware is triple coated onto a heavy steel base, is dishwasher safe, does not taint..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
A mushroom knife with brush, with an oiled, turned birch handle, which has a shaped indent perfect for the thumb to rest whilst applying gentle pressure during the act of harvesting. With a horsehair brush, whose medium length bristles provide just enough power to clean without spoiling the delicate..
£27.50
Ex Tax:£22.92
Brand: Small items
A 7.5cm mini sharpening steel, for portable sharpening on hand whenever you need it. Designed and made in France. Great for sharpening all of Opinel’s pocket knives, this stainless steel steel, whilst diminutive, is a high quality sharpening tool suitable for small tools and knives. Opinel have been..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Small items
A small enamelled steel mug with a white interior and black rim, made in Ukraine. Firing in a traditional kiln results in slight variations of temperature and therefore colour and nature of finish. All our Ukrainian enamelware is triple coated onto a heavy steel base, is dishwasher safe, does not ta..
£6.50
Ex Tax:£5.42
Brand: Oversize items
An aluminium blow pipe with an oiled beechwood mouthpiece and handle and a leather hanging strap. Originating in the mountainous Massif Central region of France, the Bouffadou fire pipe enables you to blow air right into the heart of the fire. Keeping you at a safe distance, the pipe is equally effe..
£33.50
Ex Tax:£27.92
A vegetable-tanned, 3mm thick tan leather lanyard with a sturdy brass clasp, from Casström of Sweden. Using the belt loop at one end, you can attach items to the clasp, giving more security when keeping items in your pocket or bag. Whether you're securing a fire steel, house keys or pocket kni..
£19.50
Ex Tax:£16.25
Brand: Objects of Use
Gift vouchers, or certificates in denominations of £10.00, £25.00, £50.00, or £100.00 of letter-pressed card produced for us in the printing workshop of Richard Lawrence just a cycle ride away from our shop in central Oxford. These vouchers include a unique code allowing them to be used either onlin..
Brand: Small items
A naturally bark tanned reindeer leather storage bag from Swedish Lapland and of a type traditionally used by the nomadic Sami people for the storage of coffee, salt, dry foodstuffs, tinder, or fire-lighting paraphernalia. The reindeer leather is very soft and yet durable, and being only approximate..
£54.00
Ex Tax:£45.00
Brand: Small items
An approximately 2.5 litre, 15cm diameter and 20cm high lidded milk can or kitchen caddies from Ukraine, useful for storage, fermenting, or holding compostable waste. Fired in a traditional kiln, which results in slight variations of temperature and therefore colour and nature of finish. All our Ukr..
£30.00
Ex Tax:£25.00
Brand: Small items
A sturdy oyster shucker, with a 6cm long, 3.5cm wide stainless steel blade and a generous, 8cm wide protective plate to ensure you come to no harm whilst preparing your dinner. A classic design, with hard resin handle, full tang blade held in place with stainless steel rivets. A full tang allow..
£20.00
Ex Tax:£16.67
Brand: Small items
A classic Spanish ‘goat-legged’ folding pocket knife with pointed, leaf shaped blade in high-carbon stainless steel, for an easy-care pocket knife which will still keep a well-sharpened edge. Hand made in Catalonia by Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife maker in a town once dotted with man..
£58.50
Ex Tax:£48.75
Brand: Small items
A rustic, easy care Spanish folding pocket knife with Pallarès' classic leaf-shaped blade in high carbon stainless steel, and a handle cast in resin, for an easy-care pocket knife which will still keep a well-sharpened edge. Hand made in Catalonia by Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knif..
£13.00
Ex Tax:£10.83
Brand: Small items
A rustic, easy care Spanish folding pocket knife with a yatagan style blade in high carbon stainless steel, and a handle cast in resin, for an easy-care pocket knife which will still keep a well-sharpened edge. Hand made in Catalonia by Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife maker i..
£13.50
Ex Tax:£11.25
Brand: Small items
First produced in Nantes in 1911 these lanterns are now made still using the original machines in Slovakia. A patented burner and optimised air circulation guarantee a constant and luminous flame, even in strong winds, and without darkening the glass. Made from tinned and powder coated steel for imp..
£37.50
Ex Tax:£31.25
Brand: Small items
An approximately 8cm rod (6cm exposed length) of a steel magnesium alloy set into a figured masur birch handle. Originally developed by the Swedish department of defence as a reliable firelighting aid for army use in often arctic conditions — when struck with a steel blade, or the back of a knife (o..
£35.00
Ex Tax:£29.17
A classic ‘elddon’ (tinder-box) natural fire-lighting kit in a waterproof tin, from the forests of Swedish Lapland. A handy little tin containing everything you need to start a fire in the traditional way, containing a hand-forged fire striker steel, a couple of pieces of flint, some amadou tinder (..
£30.25
Ex Tax:£25.21
Brand: Small items
A hand-forged fire striker made to the traditional curved and curled form of Swedish high carbon steel. Made in northern Sweden these found extensive use before the advent of matches and still retain the advantage of not running out at inopportune moments. Originally struck rapidly against natural f..
£19.00
Ex Tax:£15.83
Brand: Small items
A log or blanket storage basket, hand woven of birch strips of between five and seven centimetres width using methods thought to have been in use throughout the Fennoscandian Peninsula since before recorded history. From a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Measuring about 50cm front to ..
£100.00
Ex Tax:£83.33
Brand: Small items
Compartmented stainless steel food carriers made famous by the notorious dabbawalla food deliverers in India. Common throughout Asia as containers of both home cooked and restaurant lunches they allow separate dishes to be transported together without mixing — great for transporting curries, but als..
£18.50
Ex Tax:£15.42
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A carbon steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle fitted to a hexagonal poplar wood handle for a better and more comfortable grip. From Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. With a fairly short, fine but very sharply serrated blade these could reasonably be considered a lig..
£16.50
Ex Tax:£13.75
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A stainless steel bladed medium sized harvesting sickle from Asano Mokkousho, of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture Japan. With a fairly short, fine but very sharply serrated blade these could reasonably be considered a lightweight hybrid of pruning saw and classic smooth bladed sickles. Typically us..
£18.00
Ex Tax:£15.00
Brand: Small items
Believed to have developed in seventeenth century Sheffield as an affordable but strong outdoors-mans pocket knife, the barlow is typified by its long bolster, tapering rounded handle, and clip ended blade. Handmade with brass linings and walnut scales around a carbon steel blade in the Sheffield wo..
£32.00
Ex Tax:£26.67
Made in Sheffield by Joseph Rodgers, this British Army Knife is a simple and robust folding knife with a non-locking blade made from high-carbon stainless steel. This two-piece knife makes an excellent everyday utility knife, featuring a heavy-duty sheepsfoot blade, as well as a tin-opener and integ..
£36.00
Ex Tax:£30.00
A handsome leather sheath, Made in the USA to fit the Leatherman Wave. This premium leather sheath has been engineered for high performance and is built to last, with a foil stamped logo and custom snap. Internal Capacity: 4.25” x 1.5” x 0.8” (10.8cm x 3.8cm x 2cm)...
£29.50
Ex Tax:£24.58
Brand: Taylor's Eye witness
A twin-blade pen and lambfoot folding knife with stainless steel blades and genuine polished mother of pearl scales. During our visit to the dedicated workshop at the New Eye Witness Works in Sheffieldwhere these are created, we asked cutler Lee what his preferred knife to make was and his reply was..
£255.00
Ex Tax:£212.50
Brand: Small items
A traditional Japanese folding knife from Nagao Kinekoma with a trademarked folded brass handle and three inch triple layered Hitachi Aogami (blue paper - named after the wrapping the steel is traditionally supplied in) blade. First produced in 1894 when Tasaburo Shigematsu introduced a small double..
£34.00
Ex Tax:£28.33
Brand: Casstrom
A handmade knife from the Finnish part of Lapland, with a curly birch handle, brass bolster, stainless steel curved blade, with a vegetable tanned leather neck sheath, and a tuft of tampico bristles on the butt for the cleaning of soil and humus from freshly picked fungi. Total length about 21cm, wi..
£44.00
Ex Tax:£36.67
Brand: Small items
A pocket-friendly stainless steel culinary and garden knife, ideal for paring and dividing fruit, but also light horticultural use — picking fruit and flowers, as well as a more general purpose camping or picnicking knife. With a sakura handle and sheath to protect pockets as well as hampers from th..
£14.00
Ex Tax:£11.67
Brand: Small items
A nordic bushcraft knife and sheath making kit from Sweden. Included in the kit is a tanged 9.5cm Swedish blade of carbon steel, a block of figured curly birch and slice of antler for forming the handle, a brass bolster, all the leather and cord necessary to form a long Scandinavian style sheath, as..
£55.00
Ex Tax:£45.83
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A small hand forged hatchet with a lacquered Japanese Oak handle and a leatherette case. From Asano Mokkousho of Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. Heavier than a knife, lighter than a billhook or hatchet and single bevelled for right-handed use, in the garden this is ideal for limbin..
£48.00
Ex Tax:£40.00
Brand: Hultafors
Hand forged, shaped, ground, and assembled axes from Hults Bruk in Sweden, mounted on seasoned, oiled hickory heartwood handles. The blade edges are tempered and hardened to 58-59 HRC, offering more than adequate durability and allowing them to be properly resharpened without damage. The mini hatche..
£135.00
Ex Tax:£112.50
Brand: Hultafors
Hand forged, shaped, ground, and assembled axes from Hults Bruk in Sweden, mounted on seasoned, oiled hickory heartwood handles. The blade edges are tempered and hardened to 58-59 HRC, offering more than adequate durability and allowing them to be properly resharpened without damage. The forest axe ..
£145.00
Ex Tax:£120.83
Brand: Small items
A hand-forged pruning axe with a Blue Paper steel — renowned for the longevity and finesse it grants an edge — blade laminated between layers of tough, shock absorbing malleable iron giving an ideal blend of sharpness and durability. The handle is shaped from Japanese white oak, and the axe is suppl..
£150.00
Ex Tax:£125.00
Brand: Asano Mokkousho
A hand forged axe from Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata Prefecture, central Japan. With a 1.5kg long, fairly thick, steep beveled, but quite narrow from heel to toe head fixed to a straight Japanese White Oak handle this is designed for splitting logs along the grain, the cheeks of the axe being grooved to he..
£95.00
Ex Tax:£79.17
Brand: Small items
A very distinctively shaped mid-weight brush cutting tool used for cutting and clearing denseand tangled undergrowth. From the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with small manufacturers. Founded in 1917 by brothers Lluís and Carles Pallar..
£24.50
Ex Tax:£20.42
Brand: Small items
A double sided portable whetstone for use on axes and other straight or convex garden and outdoor tools. Always used with water the stone has a coarser (darker) side of 150 grit for the rapid restoration of damaged or neglected edges, and a finer(paler) side of 600 grit, with a groove between for gr..
£49.00
Ex Tax:£40.83
Brand: Small items
A painted birch, large size barbecue basting brush with tampico fibre bristles, hand made in Finland by the crafts people of a workers cooperative for the visually impaired. The longer handle enables the user to keep a greater distance from the heat, while the broad brush allows for speedy bas..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
A great everyday version of the Maglite, suitable for carrying with you. Mag Instruments was born as a one man machine shop in 1955, producing precision parts for the aerospace industry. Its most famous product is the Maglite, intended initially for the american public sector. Made famous by many an..
£25.00
Ex Tax:£20.83
Brand: Small items
A traditional and natural Swedish leather treatment made of lanolin, naturally extracted pine tar, birch oil, and spruce resin. Originating before the advent of ‘breathable’ membranes or rubber boots boot grease like this was relied upon to grant crucial waterproofing to woodsman’s winter boots. Wit..
£17.50
Ex Tax:£14.58
Brand: Small items
A professional orchestral, or perhaps theatrical nickel plated siren whistle with a complex rotating mechanism which accurately recreates the vibrating whine of an old fashioned air siren. Once beloved by cyclists for its remarkable ability to clear a path through the busiest of streets, it has been..
£40.00
Ex Tax:£33.33
Brand: Hohner
Made of nickel coated brass and with a pearwood comb, the Marine band is virtually unchanged since 1896. In an early example of 'celebrity' endorsement it was named after the famous band led by John Philip Sousa, whose picture still appears on the case. In due course this model became the mo..
£55.00
Ex Tax:£45.83
Brand: Small items
Gathered and blended by a small family producer in the arctic forests of Swedish Lapland from sustainably harvested wild spruce resin, animal fats, and beeswax. Kåd-salva is a traditional Scandinavian remedy for dry, chapped, cracked, or itchy skin, small wounds, grazes, and blisters, it's even thou..
£10.00
Ex Tax:£8.33
Produced and blended by a small family producer in the arctic forests of Swedish Lapland from 95% lanolin and their own pine tar - produced by the slow heating of locally and sustainably harvested pine cuttings over charcoal fires, the pine tar being the dark smoky liquid that drips from the roastin..
£26.50
Ex Tax:£22.08
Brand: Small items
A raw unstripped willow and golden tampico fibre basting brush handmade by the crafts people of a Finnish visually impaired workers cooperative. Tampico is a moderately stiff vegetable fibre harvested from an agave found only in the Chihuahuan desert. The fibres have a microscopically barbed surface..
£10.50
Ex Tax:£8.75
Brand: Small items
A mushroom picker of unstripped Finnish willow mounted with a lightly sharpened birch blade, hard enough to cut the delicate stems of most wild fungi, and with a tampico brush to clean soil and leaf compost from the freshly harvested mushrooms. Handmade by the craftspeople of a Finnish visually impa..
£21.50
Ex Tax:£17.92
Brand: Small items
A classic Spanish 'goat-legged' pocket knife with a pointed, leaf shaped blade of stainless steel. With matching stainless linings and spring set within shaped and polished antler scales individually decorated with unique pinwork. Hand made in Catalonia by Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving kni..
£86.00
Ex Tax:£71.67
Brand: Small items
The larger of our two sizes of Catalonian Hunter axe, with hammer to the reverse. Traditionally used for breaking down carcasses, as well as cutting through light brush. Hand produced at the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with small ma..
£59.00
Ex Tax:£49.17
Brand: Small items
Traditionally used for breaking down carcasses, as well as cutting through light brush. Hand produced at the workshops of Cuchillería Pallarès, the one surviving knife and tool maker in a town once dotted with small manufacturers. Founded in 1917 by brothers Lluís and Carles Pallarès Canal, th..
£50.00
Ex Tax:£41.67
Brand: Small items
A double finger looped mug to hold a round 200ml, made in Finland from birch wood. A traditional drinking vessel of the Sami, the indigenous people of far northern Scandinavia, these are light, durable, and have better insulating properties than porcelain or enamel, which of course stops them freezi..
£15.00
Ex Tax:£12.50
Brand: Small items
A double finger looped mug of 200ml, hand carved in Lapland, traditionally salted and cured. For centuries the beautifully figured birch burl kuksa has been the drinking vessel of the Sami, the indigenous people of far northern Scandinavia. These are light, bounce if dropped, and have better insulat..
£79.00
Ex Tax:£65.83