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Lot 164
An Unusual Knife And Fork With Handles Forming Flintlock PistolsIn German Early 18th Century Style
25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,560 inc. premium
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In German Early 18th Century Style
In German Early 18th Century Style
The knife with curved blade double-edged at the clipped-back point and struck with a mark on one side, the fork of two sharply-pointed tines, each with brass handles also forming the barrel, engraved with hatched scrolling foliage and inscribed 'F:X:Richter, Shartm' (sic), and with engraved external mechanisms comprising triggers, cocks, steels and springs (patinated) (2)
21.5 cm.
21.5 cm.
Footnotes
See Lewis Winant, Firearms Curiosa, 1955, p. 233, pl. 267, for the only recorded cased set of knife, fork and spoon, in the W. Keith Neal Collection. For a very similar example sold in these Rooms see Antique Arms and Armour, 4 April 2007, lot 265








