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.

PRUSSIAN CIRCUMCISION KNIFE.

c. 1880

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.