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Wide steel blade, slightly up-curved lower edge, angled end, pointed. Tang with button end. Handle eight-sided. Brass scales on major plane engraved with wriggle work; four sides of bone; two exposed tang sides. Handle end with 24 laminated sections of tri-color horn and brass plates. Plain brass end.

  • Credit: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
  • Rights: CC0

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Medium
Steel, brass, horn, bone
Genre
cutlery Decorative Arts Knife edanmdm