Provenance
The gift from Tsar Nicholas II to Lord Edward Pelham Clinton GCVP KCB, Master of Her Majesty Queen Victoria’s Household, October 1896. Engraved: ‘October 1896 – Lord Pelham Clinton from the Emperor of Russia / Presented by the recently crowned Nicholas II on the occasion of his visit in the autumn of 1896 to Balmoral to meet Queen Victoria’
A large Imperial presentational paper knife with a nephrite blade and a reeded two-colour gold handle, the blade set with a finely chased and engraved Imperial double-headed eagle; contained in a contemporary unmarked fitted case.
