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Lot 629 Dα

A Venetian silver knife

Auction 1184 - overview Cologne
19.11.2021, 11:00 - Decorative Arts
Estimate: 900 €
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A Venetian silver knife

Hexagonal handle terminating in a figure of a herm. The curved steel blade with a smith's mark. With an unidentified maker's mark ABI (documented in around 1660-70). L 28 cm, weight 154 g.
2nd half 17th C.

Literature

Cf. a knife in the Amme collection illustrated in cat. Historische Bestecke, Stuttgart 2002, no. 209. Cf. also Marquardt, Europäisches Essbesteck aus acht Jahrhunderten, Stuttgart 1997, no. 340.