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Lot 219Y

Five Miniature Pocket Knives
All Late 19th Century

30 November 2011, 10:30 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

£600 - £800

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Five Miniature Pocket Knives
All Late 19th Century

Variously with mother-of-pearl and tortoiseshell grips, mostly mounted in white-metal and each with highly polished blades of various types including saw-blades, phleme, hooks and corkscrews, two with old paper label attached with handwritten inscription 'Cutlery Bourbonne les Bains Vusges 1876' (5)

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Presumably made to demonstrate the skill required to produce cutlery and intended as trade samples or for exhibition

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