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Carter No.: 032q

Handlist description: Five knives of hard crystalline limestone

Card/Transcription No.: 032q


32 (q) Five knives of hard crystalline limestone.

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Lengths vary 16.8, 14.9, 14.5, 11.3, 10.9.

In other respects similar to (p)

Yellowish in colour: almost like alabaster.

Two had broken handles & two broken tips

Discoloured in places, and covered with grease.

Cleaned off fatty matter with acetone & repaired those broken with celluloid cement.

Card no. 032q relating to Carter no. 032q
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