Knife
1837-1940 (made)
Knife with a curved steel blade and antelope bone and hoof handle.
Object details
| Categories | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Antelope bone and hoof
Steel |
| Brief description | Knife with a curved steel blade and antelope bone and hoof handle, used by Samuel Phelps as Shylock in 'The Merchant of Venice', Haymarket Theatre, 28 August 1837, and by Donald Wolfit as Shylock at the King's Theatre, 1940. |
| Physical description | Knife with a curved steel blade and antelope bone and hoof handle. |
| Credit line | Given by the British Theatre Museum Association |
| Object history | Part of the Donald Wolfit bequest to the British Theatre Museum Association (BTMA), presented to the BTMA by Lady Wolfit on 24 April 1968. |
| Association | |
| Other number | 1968/A/42 - BTMA accession number |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | S.819-1981 |
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| Record created | April 27, 2007 |
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