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Friday, 30 March 2012

Period Knives in Period paintings.


Dutch 1604.
Dutch 1608.

Dutch 1628.
German 1630.
German 1635.
Dutch 1651.
New World (America) 1600-1710.

Late 17th century to mid 18th century trade blades.


2 comments:

  1. Some folks would never think to look!

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  2. Interesting that you should mention that Gorges, because as yet, I have never seen the knives mentioned in the blurb on the paintings. Everything else in the painting gets a mention, but not the knife, strange.
    Keith.

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