A RARE FOLDING HUNTING LANCE-KNIFE, KOOYSTRA, 69 OXFORD STREET, MID-19TH CENTURY

A RARE FOLDING HUNTING LANCE-KNIFE, KOOYSTRA, 69 OXFORD STREET, MID-19TH CENTURY with broad spear-point locking blade stamped ‘Kooystra, 69 Oxford St.’ at the ricasso, German silver covered locking bar, iron fillets with German silver mount at the top, natural staghorn scales applied with a German silver escutcheon on each side respectively engraved with the owner’s coat-of-arms and crest, the latter surmounting the initials ‘W.T.L.’ and the base with laterally pierced cylindrical iron mount, complete with its leather case, 32.7 cm (closed) Literature David Hayden-Wright, The Heritage of English Knives, Atglen, Pennsylvania, 2008, p. 90. The arms and crest are those of the Langrishe Baronets of Knocktopher Abbey, County Kilkenny, Ireland. J. D. Kooystra is recorded working as a cutler at this address in Johnstone’s London Commercial Guide of 1818. Part proceeds to benefit the Acquisition Fund of the Arms and Armor department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.