Quick blog, really for the attention of Rog and Catherine (but especially the latter).
In view of your interest in cutlery, could you please identify the above second hand instruments which we have been reduced to using of late?
P.s. I do know what these are (more or less), and we haven't really been using them, well only the lower three, as cheese knives, etc., but thought you might be interested in seeing them.
Regards, Mike and Ann.
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Oh Mike, thanks for thinking of me, but I only know about post 1920's with any confidence. They look like proper antiques rather than my "vintage" field!
Hello Catherine, forgive slight leg pull, but I'm glad you found them interesting.
They are (from top to bottom):-
flint spear head, although it could also conceivably have been used for cutting meat, of neolithic period, circa 2,000 to 3,000 B.C.
Bronze dagger/eating knife, circa 1,000 B.C.
Iron age knife, first/second century B.C.
Romano British iron and bronze combination knife/spoon/small blade, travelling eating set, of circa second/third century A.D.
The lower three are all mid eighteenth century silver handled table knives. Collected over the years, and like most antiquities - not of any great value, but of great interest.
Regards to you both - Mike.
I am concerned Mike, I really cannot recommend eating meat of the neolithic period (although neolithic biltong would probably still be OK;)nor travelling whilst eating. You have a lovely dining table, please sit down at it to eat! You may otherwise damage your digestive system irreparably.
PS
What a gorgeous little bronze dagger that is - any idea of whence it came?
Not really Crowbard. The top four items I purchased over several years from a dealer in antiquities. He ceaased to trade some years ago, but he told me that most of his stock was excavated in this country, and that the iron age knife, and also the Romano British combination tool, were excavated in the Colchester area at different times. Word of mouth provenance though.
Not really Crowbard. The top four items I purchased over several years from a dealer in antiquities. He ceaased to trade some years ago, but he told me that most of his stock was excavated in this country, and that the iron age knife, and also the Romano British combination tool, were excavated in the Colchester area at different times. Word of mouth provenance though.
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