Knife
Category
Arms and armour
Date
Unknown
Materials
Leather, Lacquer, Fish skin, Steel, Metal, Wood
Measurements
27 mm (Width); 390 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1328953
Summary
Knife - Short steel blade, unsigned. No spacers. Painted metal tsuba pierced with heart decoration and one hole to the side of blade space. Sticky label '5'. Ferrous metal ferrule to end of wooden handle. Handle covered with cream fish skin and brown leather webbing. Circular, metal menukis under webbing both sides. Black lacquered wooden scabbard with strap loop and space for sharpening tool, poor condition.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.