Folding Knife From Traveling Cutlery Set
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1720–50
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Sabre-shaped blade, pistol-shaped brass handle with scrolled end. Brass scales, cast and chased with a deer, boar, dogs, a fox and a bird. Trees and acanthus scrolls against a matte background. Blade folds into handle.
place: label: made in
content: Bohemia/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: 1985-103-258
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: brass, steel
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 19.5 × 2.8 × 0.9 cm (7 11/16 × 1 1/8 × 3/8 in.)