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Description
13" (33 cm.) l. 11'h. Of fine cherrywood and ebony, with tinplate details, the elegantly-shaped knife-sharpening model may have originally purposed as a salesman's sample or patent model. With paddles designed to work the wheel and grinding rod, with wooden storage boxes at the sides, and with raised beaded lettering at the back sign plate "W.R. Broomfeild" [sic]. Excellent condition. Mid-1800s, American or English. Outstanding sculpting of the model with fine details of construction.