Fruit knife
Category
Metalwork
Date
Unknown
Materials
Mother-of-pearl [pinctada maxima], Silver
Measurements
14 mm (Width); 125 mm (Length); 17.2 g (Weight)
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339836
Summary
Victorian ladies fruit knife (folding). Mother-of-pearl handle, engraved floral decoration with silver name plate to one side and silver blade with hall mark Sheffield 1849. Maker's mark TM.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.