Exceptional Victorian Royal Artillery Officers Multi Tool Knife (+ Amazing History)

An exceptional Victorian stag horn gripped 11 tool coach mans knife made by Rodgers of Sheffield `Cutler to her Majesty' to the highest standard and named to Griffith Evans Veterinary Surgeon Royal Artillery (b 1835 - d 1935).
Griffith Evans was born at Ty-mawr, Towyn, North Wales in 1835, in 1853 enrolled at the Royal Veterinary College in London, commissioned into the Royal Artillery as Veterinary Surgeon in 1860, posted with regiment to Canada where he studied human medicine and gained his M.D in 1864.
Evans sought the opportunity to gain war experience and had himself transferred to N.America to study and treat war wounded servicemen during the American Civil War, he returned to England in 1870.
Posted to India in 1877 and sent to investigate a disease that was endemic & fatal to horses of the British cavalry and artillery, later sent to investigate the `Surra' disease which was fatal to horses and camels of the Punjab Frontier Forces, Evans identified the cause which was then named after himself ` Tryanosoma EVANSi '.
The multi-tool knife is in beautiful condition with all removable tools present, there is a slight bend in tip of the small auger (shown in photo) but apart from this it remains a stunning knife with an amazing history.
The small silver shield on the stag horn scale bears the lightly worn name Griffith Evans RA.
Evans married in 1870 to Catherine Mary Jones from Llanfair Caereinion ( local to myself) and after retiring from the army in 1890 carried on in pioneering medicine.
SORRY UK SALE ONLY , Proof of age WILL be required (18+)

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