Salad Knife (Italy), ca. 1986 Short steel blade with flat upper edge, rounded tip and curving cutting edge. Rounded thread border at handle join extends one inch on to upper edge of the tapering rectangular handle, and terminates at a notch. The handle with squared end. Related Objects Knife (Netherlands), ca. 1618 Print, Two Knives, ca. 1640 Elsinore Dinner Knife, 1980