A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Shoe Nails

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A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles Shoe NailsOrigin: Irish Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, County Tipperary, Ireland. Date: c. 1840 60 Length: 10. 25 Width: 1 The very scarce early Victorian knife being beautifully horn shafted, probably a table knife, the blade stamped 'Clonmel Asylum' with short cutting edge, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century and County Tipperary, Ireland. The knife is in very good condition with patination