A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope above three scrolling supports

above three scrolling supports

standing on square block kegs

The label shows some wear

H stamped within a lozenge

to brass castors and surviving from Edwardian period England and a Northamptonshire country house

A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Beth Carter @ Doe & Hope above three scrolling supportsOrigin: 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