Another £33,000 paid out for the man who collected knives and forks
(Artdaily.org)

The latest part of the Bill Brown collection of cutlery has taken more than £30,000 at auction, with just three lots scooping £7,300. The bids at Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers bring the total raised by sales from the collection so far to well over the £500,000 mark. Most notable has been the £485,000 paid to secure Brown’s massive historical archive for Museums Sheffield, thanks to Heritage Lottery and Art Fund grants. While he scoured auctions, galleries and markets for more than 50 years in his quest to investigate the history of cutlery, Bill Brown also found riches by getting up to his elbows and knees in the Thames mud. The 1000 pieces in Museums Sheffield comprise just part of his collection, which spans the history of British cutlery and flatware as well as foreign pieces that had influenced British design. Now, more than 60 years after spending