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Rusty pocketknife belonging to Lawrence of Arabia expected to fetch up to £300 at auction

A rusty pocket knife Lawrence of Arabia is thought to have used in his desert campaign during World War One is going up for sale.

The Victorian-era knife was made by Royal cutlers Underwood and Farrant that produced them before the Swiss Army version became popular.

And historians are wondering whether this early multi-tooled blade proved invaluable to the war hero as he battled the Turks in the deserts of Arabia.

It was found in the garden of Clouds Hill, Lawrence's home near Bovington in Dorset, where the mysterious hero was living when he died after crashing his Brough Superior motorbike in 1935.

The knife has the initials TEL - for Thomas Edward Lawrence - burned into the wooden handle, a technique Lawrence used on many of his possessions....

Read entire article at Daily Mail (UK)