- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Dagger or knife with flamboyant blade and wooden handle. [El.B 15/3/2007]
- Long description
- Dagger or knife with flamboyant blade and wooden handle. The handle has copper alloy rings at both ends. It has a knuckleguard of a narrow bar of steel, fixed to oval plates with small knobs on both ends of the handle. There is Dagger or knife with flamboyant blade and wooden handle. [El.B 15/3/2007]also a small knob on the butt. [El.B 15/3/2007]
- Person
- Field collector J. Strode Wilson
- Field collector John Strode Wilson
- PRM source J. Strode Wilson
- PRM source John Strode Wilson
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1894
- Date collected
- By 1894
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1894
- Materials and processes
- Material Steel Metal, Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Wood Plant, Process Forged (Metal), Process Carved, Process Incised
- Dimensions
- Length: max 280 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1894.32.74
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