Fine. Lovely vignette of female equestrian on white horse. We don't know when this was made, but our best bet would be around 1920, and probably from England. 29 cm tall. The purpose of a paper cutting knife was to cut uncut leaves in a new book. By the 1930s most books were sold with the pages pre-cut. The early twentieth century was a transitional period, though, when it was still not unusual to encounter books with uncut pages. To cut the pages, a knife with somewhat smooth, rounded, dull edges were used, as anything else would have led to an inordinate amount of collateral damage. (Inventory #: 006715)
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