Letter opener
Category
Desktop & office
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Ivory, bone
Measurements
22 mm (Width) x 8 mm (Depth); 225 mm (Length)
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Stourhead, Wiltshire
NT 733006
Summary
Letter opener, ivory handle with a bone blade, one side of the handle carved with an oak leaf, a stag and a doe, the other rusticated, probably 19th century.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust along with Stourhead House, its grounds, and the rest of the contents by Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare, 6th Bt (1865 – 1947) in 1946.