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Description: | Fire-steel forming back of a brass-handled hunter's pocket-knife (length 3 1/2 ins), having two blades (one broken) and a cork-screw; handle, of cast brass, bears on each side the bust of General Chasse (1765-1849), a distinguished Dutch commander, with his name below, also a flaming bomb between laurel-branches, and various military trophies, all in relief. Holland. [NB: one of eight specimens (nos. 512-519). Five are ordinary pocket-knives, the backs of which are either intended for use as fire-steels or have been used as such. In the case of the other three, the back of the knife-blade has been so used.] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Source: | Science Museum | Identifier: | 1937-682/515 | Go to resource |
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