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Description:

Pistol-grip handled knife with blunt, curved and tapered blade; engraved crest on handle back or non-mark side depicts a mermaid or siren, with flowing hair and textured skin, in profile proper erased on a ducal coronet and wreath. Blade front has one incuse stamp along spine of a dagger or trident. From a set of 12 knives and 12 forks stored in original shagreen-covered case, 1978.2424.01-.025.

Date Made: 1740 - 1760

Place Made: United Kingdom: England

See more items in: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life, American Enterprise, Domestic Furnishings

Exhibition: American Enterprise

Exhibition Location: National Museum of American History

Credit Line: Gift of Cornelia B. Peterson

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: 1978.2424.05Catalog Number: 1978.2424.05Accession Number: 1978.2424

Object Name: knife

Physical Description: silver (handle material)steel (blade material)Measurements: overall: 3/4 in x 10 5/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 1.905 cm x 26.9875 cm x 2.8575 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b2-b4ed-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_315372

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Knife