Dinner knives with mottled green Parkesine handles
- Made:
- circa 1862
- maker:
- Alexander Parkes
Dinner knife with mottled green Parkesine handles; steel blades, c. 1862. Two of knives bent at join with blade, Made by Alexander Parkes; c. 1862.
Details
- Category:
- Plastics and Modern Materials
- Object Number:
- 2009-165/5
- Materials:
- Parkesine (xylotile) and steel (metal)
- type:
- dinner knife
- credit:
- Plastics Historical Society