A set of bone (bakelite) knives with the sought after square cut handles and wider spatula style blades. All six housed in an original battered cardboard box. c 1920.
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Knife Box Cutlery Storage Georgian English
“Very rare item this is an English knife box made in the late 1700s or early 1800s for the storage of different sized table knives. Since the earliest times the knives were kept separate from the other cutlery lest they fall into the hands of potentially “”hostile”” guests.”