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Description: | Post medieval knife handle, worn, bent and corroded, possibly Dutch, hollow-cast in the round in two parts and braised together, in the form of a male and a female figure embracing. The female figure is wearing a bonnet and long dress and holding up part of the hem in her right hand (in a), her left hand and arm around the waist of her paramour. The male figure is wearing a flattened cap with pendent element on the reverse, a long belted coat and sword and has his right arm around the female figure's waist and his left hand on her right breast. There is a damaged square socket at the base of the standing figures (internal dimensions 5 x 5mm), for missing (?knife) tang. 20 x 77mm. Cf. Read (2001) nos.637-8. 17th century.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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