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Lot 164

An Unusual Knife And Fork With Handles Forming Flintlock Pistols
In German Early 18th Century Style

25 July 2007, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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An Unusual Knife And Fork With Handles Forming Flintlock Pistols
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.

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

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