29th Jun, 2023 12:00
The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives
508
AN INDIAN HUNTING KNIFE, TREACHER & CO., BOMBAY & POONA, CIRCA 1880-90
with broad single-edged blade formed with a swaged spear-point and filed back-edge, etched with the maker’s details on one face, rectangular ricasso, German silver elliptical guard, milled copper alloy fillets, and natural staghorn scales retained by five rivets and with vacant German silver escutcheon, in its German silver mounted leather scabbard with spring retaining clip, 20.0 cm blade
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 312.
Treacher and Company Limited are recorded as preparers of drugs and pharmaceutical products in Bombay, Salsette Island, Maharashtra, and Poona, India, circa 1870-90.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Sold for £380
with broad single-edged blade formed with a swaged spear-point and filed back-edge, etched with the maker’s details on one face, rectangular ricasso, German silver elliptical guard, milled copper alloy fillets, and natural staghorn scales retained by five rivets and with vacant German silver escutcheon, in its German silver mounted leather scabbard with spring retaining clip, 20.0 cm blade
Literature
David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 312.
Treacher and Company Limited are recorded as preparers of drugs and pharmaceutical products in Bombay, Salsette Island, Maharashtra, and Poona, India, circa 1870-90.
Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Auction: The David Hayden-Wright Collection of Antique Knives, 29th Jun, 2023
