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Brent Posts: 1507 |
posted 02-14-2003 05:20 PM
  
 Hello all, According to Dr. Hood's book, it was common for people purchasing Tiffany flatware to select knives with ivory or mother-of-pearl handles to accompany their set, rather than knives with matching sterling handles. According to the book, although many such knives were made, few seem to have survived. Here are pair of old ivory handled dinner knives with silverplated carbon steel blades. The knives are the typical length for early Tiffany dinner knives, 10 1/2 inches, which seems enormous these days! I can only imagine that most early knives with non-metallic handles and silverplate or plain steel blades have ended up in the waste bin. Indeed, I dug these out of a pile of junk at a flea market! Brent IP: Logged |
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William Hood Posts: 271 |
posted 02-15-2003 04:29 PM
Brent: Thanks for digging these knives out of the junk pile. Use of ivory-handled dinner knives was common until the mid-nineteenth century, after which knives with handles matching the rest of the dinner flatware service gradually became the rule. And you are correct in that few ivory-handled specimens have survived. Perhaps when either the old blade or handle needed replacement, their owners chose to buy new metal handles or new blades and new metal handles. IP: Logged |
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