Fir Gully Knife

ABDUA:18415

Knife or fir gully, with an iron blade and a manufactured wooden handle held in place with a decorated brass ferrule (decoration: incised bands & rings). The knife was used to cut fir candles, strips of wood from pine trees.

Early: 1750 Late: 1921

wood metal iron copper alloy brass, L(overall): 213 mm W (blade): 28 mm

Physical Object

Europe, Scotland, North East Scotland, Aberdeenshire

Acquisition Source: purchase