The Antique Bread Board Museum

The Antique Bread Board Museum The world's first Bread Board Museum, featuring exquisitely carved antique bread boards and bread knives, dating from Victorian times. Located in London.

The world’s first Antique Breadboard Museum showcases a stunning collection of breadboards and bread knives, butter dishes, butter knives, cheese boards and related items dating from the 1840s. The bread boards display an astonishing variety of carving techniques, motifs and mottos, some mass-produced, others unique. Decorative bread boards were hugely popular in Victorian times, firstly among the

elite who commissioned custom-made items featuring their coats-of-arms. By the 1860s, enterprising workshops were producing bread boards more cheaply with standardised carving for the mass market. The production centre until the 1950s was Sheffield, with skilled turners, carvers and metalworkers collaborating to produce matching sets of tableware. Regrettably the last company selling English-made bread boards ceased production recently, but a small number of master-craftsmen are ensuring the skills are not forgotten.

If you have always wanted a beautiful breadboard and knife, we are now rehoming a large proportion of the collection. Se...
04/10/2025

If you have always wanted a beautiful breadboard and knife, we are now rehoming a large proportion of the collection. See Canterbury Auction Galleries for the first sale on 3rd, 4th and 6 October. www.thecanterburyauctiongalleries.com

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