A GROUP OF TWENTY-TWO OTTOMAN SCRIBE'S INSTRUMENTS comprising eleven knives with long handles, most of bone or ivory, one green-stained, two of horn, one of jade, many with coral terminals, two of the stamped steel blades with leather covers, and a small heavy knife with smoky quartz hilt, together with two carved ivory pen-rests with pierced panels with inscriptions and floral decoration, a similar bone example, a large wooden hand-rest of unusual form with ivory terminals, the upper in the form of a tulip, an inset silver page-turner, a similar bone example, two pairs of damascened scissors, an ivory paper-knife, Chinese or after the Chinese prototype, and a small cylindrical ivory box, 18-19th centuries (condition on request) longest knife 8¾in. (22.3cm.) long (22)
A GROUP OF TWENTY-TWO OTTOMAN SCRIBE'S INSTRUMENTS comprising eleven knives with long handles, most of bone or ivory, one green-stained, two of horn, one of jade, many with coral terminals, two of the stamped steel blades with leather covers, and a small heavy knife with smoky quartz hilt, together with two carved ivory pen-rests with pierced panels with inscriptions and floral decoration, a similar bone example, a large wooden hand-rest of unusual form with ivory terminals, the upper in the form of a tulip, an inset silver page-turner, a similar bone example, two pairs of damascened scissors, an ivory paper-knife, Chinese or after the Chinese prototype, and a small cylindrical ivory box, 18-19th centuries (condition on request) longest knife 8¾in. (22.3cm.) long (22)
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