Name/Title

Knife

Entry/Object ID

0000.1.165

Description

Blade single-edged with rudimentary bolster. Silver mounted toirtoseshell handle inlaid with silver wire with original owner's (?) initials C over JYC.

Collection

Cutlery Collection, Knife

Made/Created

Artist

Biggart family

Date made

1700 - 1725

Time Period

18

Place

City

Kilmaurs

Country

Scotland

Continent

Europe

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

On blade: the letters VEER over a crowned letter O (see drawing below); and the partly illegible name MAR (? contraction of KILMAWS); and a Boar's Head, being the Dutch foreign silver mark used from 1814 to 1953.

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Cutlery Collection Record Book

Other Number

CC165

Dimensions

Length

192 mm