Found this last night in a box of items belonging to my late mother.
Attachment 46356
The leather case measures 12.5cm / 5" long.
Attachment 46357
The knife is 12cm / 4.75" long and has a serrated cutting edge.
A travel picnic/butter knife?
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Found this last night in a box of items belonging to my late mother.
Attachment 46356
The leather case measures 12.5cm / 5" long.
Attachment 46357
The knife is 12cm / 4.75" long and has a serrated cutting edge.
A travel picnic/butter knife?
/Fruit also..... and definitely Cutlery IMO, lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Anniemcc2
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I would also say it was a fruit knife. I've got one that belonged to my grandmother although it is a folding one, more like a penknife with a mother of pearl handle, but they came in leather cases so you could pop them into your handbag for journeys.
Fruit knife.
Fellbrigg Hall is in Norfolk.
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/felbrigg-hall/
Hadn't thought of fruit knife because of the serrated edge - many thanks for that.
Squern - my parents were avid caravanners and National Trust members - and living on Cambs/West Norfolk border they had plenty of choice of where to visit :)
Wouldn't that fact make it a "dumpling" knife? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by squern
(With apologies to all from that county...)
Lol !
I think you mean a turkey knife!!
Wattle you think of next? :D