PAPER KNIFE
Creator(s): George Adam Scheid (Jeweler)
Currently in storage
About this object
The ivory blade of the paper knife has at one end a silver handle decorated with palmettes and other motifs. The silver is set against an amethyst colored enameled ground with a band of pale green enamel with strie ground around the top. The other end of the knife is rounded and the blade is flat.
- Object name:
- PAPER KNIFE
- Made from:
- Silver -- enamel -- ivory
- Made in:
- Vienna, Austria
- Date made:
- 1866-1914
- Size:
- 29.1 cm (11 7/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 12.238
- Class:
- SILVER
- Signature marks:
- MARK Diana's head on hexagon, 2 to the left, A to the right-for Vienna, indicating 900 fineness in silver, 1866-1922. Crown with a crescent moon to its left- German mark for objects with .800 or more of silver content, in use from 1888. .s900 - for the silver content Mark with a over 84 (partially obliterated)-Russian? G.A.S for the Austrian maker George Adam Scheid
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973