Letter Knife
Mildred Watkins · 1926–45
Provenance
Ownership history
- With Ark Antiques, New Haven, CT, by 1987; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1987.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Ark Antiques, ad in The Magazine Antiques, CXXXI no. 3 (March, 1987), p. 523 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, Elizabeth McGoey, et al., American Silver in the Art Institute of Chicago (Yale University Press, 2016), p. 184 (ill.).
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