LADIES OR PROSTITUTES GARTER KNIFE AND BROTHEL TOKEN
HISTORY
In Victorian and Edwardian Europe, the garter knife transitioned into a concealed weapon. Small, slender daggers—often called "prostitute knives" due to their association with urban self-defense—were tucked into garters or corset stays by women navigating dangerous city streets and dangerous customers.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
This Garter knife is double edged and is maker marked to the famous English Sheffield maker William Rogers. It has its original leather scabbard, it also comes with a saloon bar token for Stellas Saloon in Virginia City Nevada.
Garter knives are very collectable. this example as most others are not allowed to be imported into Australia as it is doubled edged with the only examples in Australia being the ones that are already here.