Betty & Ed, 1943, Presumed Trench Art Dagger-like Decorated Letter Opener milanese Framed (as I found it):

Framed (as I found it): 11 1/8" x 8 1/4"

feeling like a night sky filled with tiny golden stars

later 19th century I believe

" I might guess 1930s-40s or so

and the fact that it was largely women who made them--this one clearly made at home by an "amateur" for her own use

Betty & Ed, 1943, Presumed Trench Art Dagger-like Decorated Letter Opener milanese Framed (as I found it):I'm pretty certain this dagger like letter opener is a work of trench art, and one certainly made as a sweetheart gift for Betty, from Ed, in 1943. With B for Betty again on the reverse side, encircled twice in the tiny dots decorating both sides of it all over, which look to me to have been burned into the surface using a very fine point. I can never walk away from something like this, so much earnest effort and affection invested in it! Found in