A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles with shell and leaf carved

with shell and leaf carved pediment

While her soft breast with pity seems to pant

The samurai would have completed the ensemble with a chiisa-gatana

just a few years later

“Prinnie 1897-1910”

A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles with shell and leaf carvedOrigin: 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