Knife
Date:
1884
Medium:
Sterling silver, gilt
Dimensions:
length: 7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm)
Credit Line:
Founders Society Purchase, Eleanor and Edsel Ford Exhibition and Acquisition Fund
Object number:
1987.4.4
Knife with shaped handle, decorated on front with the Vanderbilt arms below a helmet and foliate mantle surmounted by an acorn crest, and on the back with the monogram W.K.V. The front of the stem is decorated with berried laurel enclosing three hounds and a reclining figure; the back has hunting trophies and tassels above berried foliage which ends at a swag with a pendant oak branch above a lion pelt drop.
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