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A horn handled knife and fork
steel, twin tyned fork with wrythen baluster-knopped shaft, humpback scimitar-shaped blade with rounded tip and cutler's mark, the pistol-grip hafts carved in relief with panels depicting hunting scenes, one signed with the initials P.A., mounted with silver ferrules and continuous reeded bands, German, early 18th century, the knife -- 9¾in. (24.7cm) long
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steel, twin tyned fork with wrythen baluster-knopped shaft, humpback scimitar-shaped blade with rounded tip and cutler's mark, the pistol-grip hafts carved in relief with panels depicting hunting scenes, one signed with the initials P.A., mounted with silver ferrules and continuous reeded bands, German, early 18th century, the knife -- 9¾in. (24.7cm) long
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