Context (Display)
Object mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, mounted with metal pins, together with TEMP.01875.1-3. 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. THE HANDLE HAS BRASS and WOOD. ALTERNATING RINGS. XVI 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)
Table knife with straight spine and pointed tip of steel or iron. The handle is shaped by alternating rings of thin copper alloy and inlaid layers of wood. Butt decorated with a tassel-shaped knob. Possibly maker's mark on heel of blade.
Event Date 07/11/2023
Author: Lucie Carreau