Mohel knife with straight blade and raised central spine, featuring ivory(?) handle. Housed in fitted velvet and silk-lined, hinged-lid leather case. Marked on blade: Grunewald. Knife: 6.5 inches.

AUCTION 66 | Thursday, November 19th, 2015 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Ceremonial Objects and Graphic Art

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Lot 363
PRUSSIAN CIRCUMCISION KNIFE.
Mohel knife with straight blade and raised central spine, featuring ivory(?) handle. Housed in fitted velvet and silk-lined, hinged-lid leather case. Marked on blade: Grunewald. Knife: 6.5 inches.

c. 1880

Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $1,000
The maker, G. Grunewald Königsberg, East Prussia (today, Kaliningrad, Russia), was a surgical supply company. Another circumcision knife with a bone handle by Grunewald appears in the Jewish Museum of New York (acquisition no. 1993-187a-b). Please note: In accordance with US law and associated international treaties in relation to the auction-sale of ivory, this lot cannot be exported from the United States.