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Lot 122

A Rare Shakespear Sporting Knife
By Wilkinson, Pall Mall, Circa 1890

6 April 2006, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Rare Shakespear Sporting Knife
By Wilkinson, Pall Mall, Circa 1890

With double-edged blade (minor areas of light pitting) etched 'Shakespear Knife Wilkinson, Pall Mall' within foliated scrolls enclosing 'No.1' on one side, and 'Hamon Le Strange' within a panel on the other, and chequered two-piece wooden grip of waisted oval section (minor damage), in wooden scabbard covered in brown pigskin with later spring catch, and frog-button
15.3 cm. blade

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Made to the design of the noted Indian sportsman and India Army Major Henry Shakespear, author of Wild Sport Of India published in 1860

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