Uncapping Knife: the Bingham Knife (Hasluck, 1905)

The Bingham honey knife: a trowel-like blade of good saw steel, sharpened all round from the underside, riveted to a cranked 3/8 in tang so the handle stands about an inch above the comb. Hasluck warns it is a job only for a maker with the means for that kind of work. Source: P. N. Hasluck, Beehives and Bee Keepers' Appliances (1905), p. 155. Picture: the book's Fig. 152.