A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Art & Sculpture and his thoughtless ways

and his thoughtless ways

the colour and patination glowing and appealing

The bases show the rubber tubing running up towards the platters that the maidens are holding and there are rectangular recesses to the backs of each figure possibly for bulbs

Benacre was the property of Fienes Lord Dacre

The top has some cracking towards the centre though this aside she remains in an original state and has been simply waxed to protect her idiosyncrasies

A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Art & Sculpture and his thoughtless waysOrigin: Irish Period: Early Victorian Provenance: Clonmel Lunatic Asylum, County Tipperary, Ireland. Date: c. 1840 60 Length: 10. 25 Width: 1 The very scarce early Victorian knife being beautifully horn shafted, probably a table knife, the blade stamped 'Clonmel Asylum' with short cutting edge, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth century and County Tipperary, Ireland. The knife is in very good condition with patination