Letter opener
- Museum number:
- 7-9693
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21070009693
- Alternate number:
- 3469 (previous number (Albert Bender’s number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.3032
- Description:
- Letter opener; amber-colored plastic (celluloid?) blade with “Lusern” written on it; curved horn handle held in place with ivory-colored rivets; height 17.9 cm
- Donor:
- Design Department (UC Berkeley)
- Collection place:
- Europe
- Collector:
- Albert M. Bender
- Materials:
- Horn (animal material) and Plastic (organic material)
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Letter openers
- Function:
- 7.1 Writing and Records (including religious texts)
- Accession date:
- 1974
- Department:
- Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
- Images:
- Legacy documentation: