Lawrence of Arabia's pocket knife on auction

December 01, 2011 12:29

Another story on auctions:

A knife belonging to Lawrence of Arabia -- the leader of the Arab Revolt against the Turks during the First World War -- is up for grabs.

Lawrence who died in 1935 had his initials, TEL, burned into the wooden handle, is thought to have been dropped in the garden of his home near Bovington, Dorset, where it lay for decades.

The seller, who remains anonymous, bought the knife during the nineties from the family of the man who found it 40 years earlier.

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