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Folding Knife by Len Morgan
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06-23-2007, 07:01 AM
Thanks and laudes, Barry!
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06-23-2007, 12:39 PM
Sulla Felix -

Looks like Keychains are much older than we'd like to think!

I like the gladiator knives - I can only imagine the possibility they could have been sold in the corner shop of the colsseum as "trinkets" or whatnot.

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06-23-2007, 05:27 PM
Yes indeed Dominicus, and here is another example with the remains of a fastening device (no provenance on this one unfortunately):

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06-23-2007, 07:45 PM
I would imagine a chain would be a useful method of fastening in liu of pockets.
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06-23-2007, 08:18 PM
Quote:The Piddington Villa Knife (recon by Nodge Nolan) appears in the magazine Current Archaeology 182.

Nodge Nolan's reconstruction was commissioned by Roy Friendship-Taylor, who has been excavating the Piddington Villa site for about 30 years, to make a replica for the small but beautiful museum at Piddington. The original is currently on loan to the BM from Piddington.

(Nodge has also undertaken commisions for the BM).
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