Clearance?! Preposterous! Christmas is only 7 and ⅔ months away!!
Classy knife, classy shot.
You got this lambsfoot thing down pat!
I can kinda see it. If you tilt your head and squint, Mitch's tomatoes kinda look like bitey little mouths. Mildly horrifying.
The gentleman's fear of tomatoes was probably inherited in some way from the general belief, well into the 19th century, that they were poisonous due to their classification as a nightshade (tobacco, tomato, eggplant, deadly nightshade, etc), and because their color and appearance had been said to inflame the passions - so, a potentially deadly aphrodisiac. Get thee behind me, Satan! That, and apparently the aristocracy kept keeling over from lead poisoning but they blamed the tomatoes instead of the lead plates. Oops.
As a relative newcomer to English knives, I really and truly believed that a nail-breaking pull was a signature feature of the region's knife-making heritage. As in, French knives will rap their blades against the spring and English knives will reave the thumbs of the fragile for their nails - I just thought it was "a thing." It was only here that I learned it was a QC, or lack thereof, issue.
Very nicely photographed
