A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Art & Sculpture superbly evocative of it’s time

superbly evocative of it’s time spent on earth thus far

Benacre was the property of Fienes Lord Dacre

The top has some cracking towards the centre though this aside she remains in an original state and has been simply waxed to protect her idiosyncrasies

and one small hole

These carvings date back to the 19th century and were thought to have originated in Germany when they first began to appear in the United States

A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Art & Sculpture superbly evocative of it’s timeOrigin: Irish Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, County Tipperary, Ireland. Date: c. 1840 60 Length: 10. 25 Width: 1 The very scarce early Victorian knife being beautifully horn shafted, probably a table knife, the blade stamped 'Clonmel Asylum' with short cutting edge, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century and County Tipperary, Ireland. The knife is in very good condition with patination