Name/Title

Knife

Entry/Object ID

0000.1.552

Description

Leaf-shaped blade, the edge damaged. The bolster of polygonal section. Bone handle of circular section widening towards a slightly swollen rounded top.

Collection

Cutlery Collection, Knife

Made/Created

Artist

Charles Fynch or Nathaniel Mathewe

Date made

circa 1610

Time Period

17

Place

City

London

Country

England

Continent

Europe

Notes

Company Connection: Charles Fynch fined for using this mark 1607. Nathaniel Mathewe passed it over to Moorbread 1610. Mathewe was a freeman before 1585 and became a liveryman in 1593. He lived until after 1639.

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Notes

Dagger and half moon

Other Names and Numbers

Other Numbers

Number Type

Cutlery Collection Record Book

Other Number

CC552

Dimensions

Length

220 mm