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Object:Knife, fork and steel. Europe, 1551-1800


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A knife, fork and steel with decorative horn handles. Cutlery-making in the eighteenth century was a distinct trade controlled by the Cutlers' guild. Cutlers made all sorts of sharp-edged tools in addition to knives, including spades, razors and blood-letting lancets for surgeons.

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