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Rhys C
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Hi this is not mine but from another forum its just under a foot long and the handle is made out of copper
Any ideas what it could be
Thanx
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Posted: Tue 15 Jan, 2008 7:32 am Post subject: Re: Any id on this |
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| Rhys C wrote: | Hi this is not mine but from another forum its just under a foot long and the handle is made out of copper
Any ideas what it could be
Thanx
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Guess: Letter opener maybe ?
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Corey D. Sullivan
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| Posted: Tue 15 Jan, 2008 8:25 am Post subject: Re: Any id on this |
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| Jean Thibodeau wrote: |
Guess: Letter opener maybe ? |
Maybe if the letter contains ninjas. Otherwise, I would have thought it a little overkill for those poor letters.
"He had scantly finyshed his saienge but the one armye espyed the other lord how hastely the souldioures buckled their healmes how quikly the archers bent ther bowes and frushed their feathers how redely the byllmen shoke their bylles and proved their staves redy to appioche and loyne when the terrible trotnpet should sound the blast to victorie or deathe."
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Jean Thibodeau
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| Posted: Tue 15 Jan, 2008 9:09 am Post subject: Re: Any id on this |
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| Corey D. Sullivan wrote: | | Jean Thibodeau wrote: |
Guess: Letter opener maybe ? |
Maybe if the letter contains ninjas. Otherwise, I would have thought it a little overkill for those poor letters. |
Well I used to own a letter opener with a 6" to 8" blade ( don't remember for sure ) that had a steel blade and a rectangular aluminium handle that looked very much like this.
Possibly a by-knife of some kind if not a letter opener.
Looks possibly Victorian era if it's a letter opener.   Still just a guess though !
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Jonathan Hopkins
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I agree that it is Victorian at the oldest and probably a domestic item like a letter opener or page turner.
Jonathan
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Christopher Gregg
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I agree. My Grandmother worked in the China and Silver department at a now-defunct department store in Louisville, and she brought home a very similar item, which she said was a letter opener, but I remember it was used in the store to hold open the pages of the display wedding registry book. This was around 1970, so I guess the trend lived for awhile.
Christopher Gregg
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Rhys C
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Thankyou guys great as always 
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Ian Hutchison
Location: Louisiana / Nordrhein-Westholland Joined: 27 Nov 2007
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My suggestion is completely uninformed but, as an alternative to a Victorian origin, might it be African?
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