DATED 1840

Details

An early Victorian mahogany knitting sheath
Dated 1840
Incised with the owner's initials C.H., and date 1840, and unusually with the letters of the alphabet
7 3/8in. (18.7cm.) long

Provenance

Levi Collection number 1105.

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Lot Essay

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Owen Evan-Thomas, Domestic Utensils of Wood, Stobart Davies,
Hertford England, 1973. Page 142, pl.54. Edward H. Pinto, Treen and Other Wooden Bygones, Bell and Hyman, London 1969. Pages 305-309, pl's.322, 323 & 324.

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