Context (Display)
Object mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, mounted with metal pins, together with TEMP.01875.1.3-4. 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. LONG SLENDER BLADE, RECTANGULAR HANDLE WITH FLUTED KNOB. XV Cent. MAKER'S MARK [depiction of mark] INLAID IN COPPER'.
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)
Iron knife with straight pointed and slender blade, rectangular handle with smoothened edges and fluted knob decorating the butt. Maker's mark inlaid with copper close to heel of blade.
Event Date 07/11/2023
Author: Lucie Carreau