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1914.36.2

Gum-handled glass knife.

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1914.36.2

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Collection type
Object
Description
Gum-handled glass knife.
Geographical reference
Australia
Oceania > Australia and New Zealand > Australia
South Australia or Northern Territory
Person
Field collector Walter Baldwin Spencer
PRM source Walter Baldwin Spencer
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1914
Date collected
By 1914
Acquisition information
Donated: 08/1914
Materials and processes
Material Glass, Material Resin Plant, Process Flaked, Process Recycled
Dimensions
Length: max 149 mm, Width: max 48 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1914.36.2
Research and responses

Between Thursday 13th and Wednesday 19th August 1914, Henry Balfour stayed with Spencer at his home "Darley" in Melbourne Australia as part of his trip to the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Australia (see Balfour's diary), though Spencer and Balfour had been undergraduates in the Natural Sciences at the same time in Oxford. It must have been on this occassion that Spencer gave Balfour these objects. [CRFW 27/1/2003]

Search terms: Tool, Weapon, Knife

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