"Chatellerault Type Closing Knife - France - 19th Century"
Chatellerault Type Closing KnifeFrance
19th century
Steel, mother-of-pearl, tortoiseshell, bone, nickel silver
Total length: 56.7 ; Blade length: 27.3 cm
Single-edged, slightly curved blade.
Release by ring on the spring.
Handle with nickel silver bolsters, finished with a rattlesnake tail and lock ring.
Spindle with steel plates, decorated with six plates in tortoiseshell, mother-of-pearl and acid-etched bone with floral motifs on one side and a knight with a sword on the other.
Reference : 4140
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