A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 218
Fig. 137.—Papal ring. … Fig. 138.—Sergeants ring. KNIVES. At a time when even spoons were rare and forks unknown (seep. 134) knives were indispensable. The makers of knives and theirhandles formed two distinct corporations in the Paris of thethirteenth century, for the handles were often elaborately carvedor decorated…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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