17th century knife at cutting edge of 21stcentury cataloguing

Suffolk antique tool auctioneer Tony Murland (10% buyer’s premium) is known for his hyperbolic cataloguing but the description accompanying this nearly 400-year-old horn handled hunting knife was a classic.

"This iron creature had to have lived in Chambord, the royal hunting lodge in the Loire Valley. Faso…

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