Context (Display)
Object mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, mounted with metal pins, together with TEMP.01875.2-4. This form of mounting possibly indicates the item was on display in Peterhouse before the museum moved to its current site on Downing Street. Hand-written label on display board reading in black ink: 'IRON KNIFE. BONE HANDLE with BRASS STUDS and DOG'S HEAD BUTT. MARK [depiction of mark]. XV Centy.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Related Documents)
See 'Report on Collections Research and Cataloguing Project on Post Medieval 'To Be Disposed Of' Material' by David Kay in the archive (Doc.474) for background information.
Event Date 2019
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Knife with straight blade with pointed tip of steel or iron and maker's mark close to heel. Copper alloy handle with wooden scales attached with four rivets each. Butt in the shape of a dog's head.
Event Date 07/11/2023
Author: Lucie Carreau