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Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

Knife handle (manche de couteau) (Front)

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Subject
Secular.

Repository Institution
www.historiska.se

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Stockholm, Historiska museet (The Swedish History Museum)

Inv. 20733

Bone

Height: 97 mm

Standing male musician playing bagpipes.

Museum's opinion 2013: French, beginning of the 15th century.

Attribution
Unknown

Reverse
Carved in the round.

Object Condition
Very worn.
The lower left part is missing.

Provenance
Found by a worker in August 1934 inside the city wall close to the Silverhättan tower; acquired by the museum in the same year from the finder.

Image

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