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VARIOUS DATES AND MAKERS
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A GROUP OF FOUR SILVER-MOUNTED IVORY PAPER KNIVES
VARIOUS DATES AND MAKERS
Comprising:- one London, 1890, with silver handle chased in the Indian style with flowers, inscribed Sep. 9th., 1890, blade incised Got; a large example by Asprey, London, 1954, silver blade engraved on either side with fleur-de-lys, Japanese ivory handle carved with a lion chasing a zebra; another with Japanese carved ivory okimono handle formed as two rats with an egg, the silver mount stamped Sterling only; also a smaller Austrian example by Georg Adam Scheid, circa 1910, the silver owl handle with red glass eyes, ivory blade with diagonal tranlucent red enamel band
Largest 17¾ in. long (45 cm.)
VARIOUS DATES AND MAKERS
Comprising:- one London, 1890, with silver handle chased in the Indian style with flowers, inscribed Sep. 9th., 1890, blade incised Got; a large example by Asprey, London, 1954, silver blade engraved on either side with fleur-de-lys, Japanese ivory handle carved with a lion chasing a zebra; another with Japanese carved ivory okimono handle formed as two rats with an egg, the silver mount stamped Sterling only; also a smaller Austrian example by Georg Adam Scheid, circa 1910, the silver owl handle with red glass eyes, ivory blade with diagonal tranlucent red enamel band
Largest 17¾ in. long (45 cm.)
Provenance
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
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