Ca. 900-1400 AD. European. A beautiful knife with a well-preserved medieval iron blade with a curved tip and antler bone handle reconstructed in Viking style with a butt shaped in the form of a dragon head and a handle with carved linear and star decoration; custom-made stand included. For more general information on Medieval knives with bone handles, see MacGregor, A. (2015). Bone, Antler, Ivory and Horn -The Technology of Skeletal Materials Since the Roman Period. London; New York: Routledge: 170. Size: L:285mm / W:35mm ; 86g. Provenance: Property of an Oxfordshire art professional; previously in an old British collection, formed in the 1980s on the UK / International art markets.