Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Knife with steel blade with straight lower edge and upper edge tapering sharply to point. Engraved silver ferrule. Engraved silver mount at end of tapering octagonal ivory handle.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 18th century or 19th century
- Credit Line
- The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
- Medium
- steel, silver, ivory
- Dimensions
- L x W x D: 15.2 × 1.6 × 1 cm (6 in. × 5/8 in. × 3/8 in.)
- Type
- cutlery
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- knife
- Type
- knife
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