Paper knife
Category
Desktop & office
Date
Unknown
Materials
Enamel, Tortoise shell
Place of origin
Fiji
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651488
Summary
Paper knife. Tortoise shell, carved as fighting sword. Top coat of arms (enamelled shield, boat, natives). Figi inscription.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
painted lettering ; below shield decoration ; RERE VAKA NA KALOUKA DOKA NA TU \ FIGI ; in paint ; Figian inscription?