Scutching knife
- Museum number:
- 7-1193
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21070001193
- Alternate number:
- 173 (previous number (donor's original number))
- Accession number:
- Acc.71
- Description:
- “Tehacktspoon”; used in preparing flax (a scutching knife); M O D, dated 1794; painted red and green; M O D painted on in red with 1794 surrounded by floral pattern
- Donor:
- Phoebe Apperson Hearst
- Collection place:
- Halsingland, Sweden
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Helsingland; Sweden
- Culture or time period:
- Swedish
- Collector:
- Axel O. Lindstrom
- Collection date:
- 1902
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Scutching blades
- Production date:
- 1794
- Accession date:
- February 12, 1903
- Department:
- Europe and western Russia (except Classical Mediterranean)
- Loans:
- S1961-1962 #76: University of California, Berkeley (May 10, 1962–June 7, 1962)
- Legacy documentation:
-