Knife from Folding Cultery Set
date: label: Date
content: 1680–1720
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Folding knife. Blade with straight lower edge, upper edge tapering towards the point, partly sloping. Pistol-shaped bone handle with engraved silver mounts, five silver studs on front and back. Edge steel carved with decorative pattern with bird in profile and stylized calligraphic inscription, possibly the date "1717". Blade folds into handle.
place: label: possibly made in
content: France
label: possibly made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Robert L. Metzenberg Collection, gift of Eleanor L. Metzenberg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1985-103-141
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Type
content: knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: steel, silver, bone
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D (unfolded): 18.7 × 1.9 × 1.4 cm (7 3/8 × 3/4 × 9/16 in.)