Note 102 — Chapter XVII · “THE TWO AMBASSADORS,” 1533

This object is in reality “a penknife containing also tooth-picks and ear-spoons or other little instruments such as tweezers or awls.” See letter from Mr. Sydney J. A. Churchill in Burlington Magazine, vol. xx., January 1912, p. 239, who calls attention to a similar penknife in the Figdor Collection, and to an engraving by Aldegrever of a like object dated 1539.