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18TH CENTURY LIVING HISTORY IN AUSTRALIA.

Friday 30 March 2012

Period Knives in Period paintings.


Dutch 1604.
Dutch 1608.

Dutch 1628.
German 1630.
German 1635.
Dutch 1651.
New World (America) 1600-1710.

Late 17th century to mid 18th century trade blades.


2 comments:

Gorges Smythe said...

Some folks would never think to look!

Keith said...

Interesting that you should mention that Gorges, because as yet, I have never seen the knives mentioned in the blurb on the paintings. Everything else in the painting gets a mention, but not the knife, strange.
Keith.