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Various folding pocket knives
Including: an example with treen haft chip-carved as the profile of a seated woman, French, late 18th/early 19th century -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) long folded; another treen example with chip carved inscription to the three sides SOUVENIR DETENU POLITIQUE and date 1873; two tortoiseshell examples inlaid with foliate cut steel; a novelty folding knife in the form of a woman's shoe; and others
See Illustration. (14)
Including: an example with treen haft chip-carved as the profile of a seated woman, French, late 18th/early 19th century -- 3¾in. (9.5cm.) long folded; another treen example with chip carved inscription to the three sides SOUVENIR DETENU POLITIQUE and date 1873; two tortoiseshell examples inlaid with foliate cut steel; a novelty folding knife in the form of a woman's shoe; and others
See Illustration. (14)