A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles but nobody knows as half

but nobody knows as half as much as clever old Mr

While her soft breast with pity seems to pant

there are no cracks and the baluster carving and finials are all in tact

traded in partnership with him for a time in London since a second very similar canvas stamp has been recorded

his affinity with the landscape and the dales folk is apparent in his best work

A Rare Early Victorian Irish Horn & Steel Table Knife; Clonmel Lunatic Asylum c.1840-60 sub-Rugs- Carpets & Textiles but nobody knows as halfOrigin: 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