Wedding knife
date: label: Date
content: early 17th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Blade straight-sided and tapering to a point. Hollow bolster, silver ferrules with geometrical and circular pattern. Ivory handle in honeycomb pattern. Silver cap has rounded end, slightly projecting at the sides, cap decorated with geometrical and circular pattern.
place: label: made in
content: England
setName: label: See more items in
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: 1985-103-89
objectType: label: Type
content: cutlery
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Wedding knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Steel, silver, iron, ivory
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 20.1 x 9 cm (7 15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)