Object data
iron, copper and lead
height 28 cm × width 8.3 cm × depth 3.3 cm
D. van den Bosch
Boarding Knife
Netherlands, Netherlands, 1831
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-735
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Boarding knife with a peculiar design.
The knife has a long blade with a curved edge. The grip is made with an oval aperture, in such a way that the back of the blade is the grip, and the edge, which continues to the end of the grip, is also the guard. The grip is covered with lead. Opposite the tip, or underneath the grip, the knife has a small pike.
D. van den Bosch’s boarding knife was not accepted by the Dutch Navy.1
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 735
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'D. van den Bosch, Boarding Knife, Netherlands, 1831', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244549
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