Paper knife
A paper knife is a knife-shaped object used to cut paper .
Paper knives used to be used, among other things, to cut open book pages of untrimmed books , which were often folded (folded with the help of tools or machines) and bound with eight sheets of printed sheets . In order to be able to read the inside pages, the sheets had to be cut open.
In contrast to the letter opener , the blade of the paper knife is rounded at the tip and consists mostly of horn , bone , formerly ivory , rarely metal.
literature
- Moriz Mohl: From the economic results of a trip to France . J. G. Cotta'scher Verlag, Stuttgart 1845.