I'm not sure what I may have started.
It was Karen's birthday, so being the woman she is, and putting up with me for so many years, I don't mind dropping some money on her now and then. She loves her Tiffany heart tag bracelet I gave her some years ago, and I've added a heart or two over the years. So, this year I decided to add a little bauble to it. Since we ride our Vespa motor scooters as a side hobby, I took her bracelet down to add a Tiffany silver Vespa to it.
So, the Tiffany store in Washington D.C does not do work themselves, but ships it all to their New York store. So off her bracelet goes to New York for the silver scooter to be mounted with a silver soldiered ring. One thing about Tiffany, no half measures there, with something coming off because a ring opened up. Good thing too, considering the price they charge for stuff!
Two weeks goes by, and I get a call that it's back and ready to be picked up. I go on down and at the customer service desk a pretty young lady takes care of it. She goes in back and brings out the small package with the right number and name on it, and goes to open it. It's sealed up pretty good, and as she's looking for a scissors to snip open the plastic bag, I offer to cut the bag open with my peanut. As I do so, she's looking very closely, and makes an exclaimation of "Oh my, what an exquisite little pen knife!"
I carefully hand her the damascus and amber bone peanut, and she looks it over, feeling the texture of the blade with a very manicured nail, and calls over a man who I think was the manager. She hands him the knife. He in turn looks it over, and he and the young lady start exchanging comments.
"Very unusual."
"Very classy looking, how do you think this will sell with silver handles?"
The man asks me all about the knife, what kind of material is the blade, can the knife be ordered without handle scales, and where to get them. I tell him about the Thomas damascus, and any questions will have to be addressed to Case Cutlery company. He turns it over several times in his hand, and seems very impressed. He points out the Victorinox Tiffany classics in the show case with hammered silver or smooth silver scales, and asks me if I think the Case peanut would sell with silver handles.
The conversation goes on a few moments, and I can see he's serious. I tell him he's going to have to take it up with Case, I have nothing to do with it myself. I'm just the end user. He tales out a small camera and photos the knife on a black velvet jewelery pad, and hands it back to me. I end up leaving with Karen's birthday gift, and wondering if there's going to be a Tiffany & Company Case damascus peanut with silver scales in the future?
It was a surreal experience. I've gotten some nice reactions to that little knife, but this is a first. A swanky New York City jewelery outfit taking pictures of my pocket knife.
Jamie, what have you wrought?
Carl.
It was Karen's birthday, so being the woman she is, and putting up with me for so many years, I don't mind dropping some money on her now and then. She loves her Tiffany heart tag bracelet I gave her some years ago, and I've added a heart or two over the years. So, this year I decided to add a little bauble to it. Since we ride our Vespa motor scooters as a side hobby, I took her bracelet down to add a Tiffany silver Vespa to it.
So, the Tiffany store in Washington D.C does not do work themselves, but ships it all to their New York store. So off her bracelet goes to New York for the silver scooter to be mounted with a silver soldiered ring. One thing about Tiffany, no half measures there, with something coming off because a ring opened up. Good thing too, considering the price they charge for stuff!
Two weeks goes by, and I get a call that it's back and ready to be picked up. I go on down and at the customer service desk a pretty young lady takes care of it. She goes in back and brings out the small package with the right number and name on it, and goes to open it. It's sealed up pretty good, and as she's looking for a scissors to snip open the plastic bag, I offer to cut the bag open with my peanut. As I do so, she's looking very closely, and makes an exclaimation of "Oh my, what an exquisite little pen knife!"
I carefully hand her the damascus and amber bone peanut, and she looks it over, feeling the texture of the blade with a very manicured nail, and calls over a man who I think was the manager. She hands him the knife. He in turn looks it over, and he and the young lady start exchanging comments.
"Very unusual."
"Very classy looking, how do you think this will sell with silver handles?"
The man asks me all about the knife, what kind of material is the blade, can the knife be ordered without handle scales, and where to get them. I tell him about the Thomas damascus, and any questions will have to be addressed to Case Cutlery company. He turns it over several times in his hand, and seems very impressed. He points out the Victorinox Tiffany classics in the show case with hammered silver or smooth silver scales, and asks me if I think the Case peanut would sell with silver handles.
The conversation goes on a few moments, and I can see he's serious. I tell him he's going to have to take it up with Case, I have nothing to do with it myself. I'm just the end user. He tales out a small camera and photos the knife on a black velvet jewelery pad, and hands it back to me. I end up leaving with Karen's birthday gift, and wondering if there's going to be a Tiffany & Company Case damascus peanut with silver scales in the future?
It was a surreal experience. I've gotten some nice reactions to that little knife, but this is a first. A swanky New York City jewelery outfit taking pictures of my pocket knife.
Jamie, what have you wrought?
Carl.
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