08-13-2017, 08:05 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-13-2017, 08:29 PM by Crispianus.)
(08-13-2017, 11:14 AM)Robert Wrote: Greetings!
Wanting to make some bronze handled knives, this one is a prime candidate: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/60205
BUT .... it is marked as a clasp knife. However, there is no hole for the pin and the cross hatched decoration is unbroken, the cut-out for holding the blade is slanted inward, not outward as one would expect with a clasp-knife and there is no real recess to hold the blade when folded. So I am in serious doubt about that identification.
SO ..... please give your opinion on this piece. What is it most likely to be clasp-knife or razor or utility/pen knife? I will try to add a poll, but feel free to comment and reason.
I would say its an unfinished handle for a folding knife.... Artifacts has a good entry for what there is called a "Pen Knife" also mentions bone handled examples:
http://artefacts.mom.fr/en/result.php?id...fmode=vign
check the above link for this which I think is more like it : Guiot 2003: T. Guiot, Couteau pliant en forme de gladiateur à Saint-Patrice (Indre-et-Loire), Instrumentum 17, 2003, 20. télécharger
Bone examples: http://artefacts.mom.fr/en/result.php?id...fmode=vign
I suspect some are Razors
Ivor
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
"And the four bare walls stand on the seashore. a wreck a skeleton a monument of that instability and vicissitude to which all things human are subject. Not a dwelling within sight, and the farm labourer, and curious traveller, are the only persons that ever visit the scene where once so many thousands were congregated." T.Lewin 1867
