Leather knife, Church Family, Mount Lebanon, NY

Object ID:

1950.2129.1

Community:

New York, Mount Lebanon

Description

A leather cutting knife with a straight-back metal blade 1 1/16" long. The blade is set into a turned cherry handle reinforced by a copper ferrule 7/16" long. The handle grows in diameter from the ferrule to the rounded butt for a length of 2 19/32".

New York Mount Lebanon

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