Feast Your Eyes: Combat Cutlery
Each item in this antique cutlery set includes its own built-in flint-lock pistol. How to be a Retronaut explains simply that: These weapons carry the maker’s mark F X RICHTER IN REICHEBERG and date from about 1715. The pistol frames are in bronze gilt, and the lockwork is unusual because it is entirely external. Multi-purpose eating implements have a long and innovative history, from this …
Published Jan 10, 2011.
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