Knife

This knife with silver handle and steel blade was made by Edinburgh silversmiths W. & P. Cunningham, in 1815-6. The knife is known as a pistol-grip knife from the style of the handle.

The crest on the upper surface of the handle depicts a lady placed underneath a baron's coronet, holding a tower in her left hand and a palm-branch in her right hand. The maker's marks - 'W&/PC' are almost entirely rubbed away.

Domestic silverware was a matter of taste and status. The fashionable silversmiths of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen produced a wide range of goods, affordable only by the reasonably well-off.

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Online ID:	000-100-086-670-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland H.MEQ 1136
Date:	1815 - 1816 1815-16
Material:	[Silver handle, steel blade]. Inscription: J [small]; W& / PC [almost entirely rubbed away]
Dimensions:	11.40" L; handle 4.60" L
What:
Subject:	Gold and silver (NMAS Classification)
Who:	W. and P. Cunningham, Edinburgh (Silversmith)
Where:	Scotland, Midlothian, Edinburgh
Event:
Description:	Knife with a steel blade and a rectangular silver handle with a shell butt, by W. and P. Cunningham, Edinburgh, 1815 - 1816
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