This thread moves at such a breakneck pace, I’m almost afraid to dip into it, worrying if I make a post, I may unintentionally miss out on replying to someones comment!
The new forum software makes it easier to keep track, though, and looking over the last few pages, I see I’ve really been missing out! What a cascade of stellar photography and cutlery!
One of my favourite Lambsfoot knives, the bolster was the basis for the 2017 Guardians Lambsfoot. It bears the 'Unity' mark, which was used by several related co-operative ventures in Sheffield, originally being the mark of the Sheffield Cutlery Co-operative Productive Society, which was formed by three trade union branches in 1866. The covers are indeed jigged bone. Few more pics
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Thank you Steve
Cambertree
has its twin
Jack, you know I’m always drawn to pics of your Unity Lambsfoot, like a fly to honey!
Thanks for the biographical info, too. Funnily enough, I had it’s twin out yesterday, as a quick sharpening session turned into a bit of extended edge honing and maintenance oiling, for quite a few Old Friends.
I’m sure I don’t need any excuses to share a couple of pics of My Precious, though!
"Look for the Union Lay-ayble". (Should be bracketed in musical notes.)
You reminded me of a commercial I haven't seen in decades.
Nice one, Jer. I like that Puñal too.
I know next to nothing about them, but it looks like a very nice score. Seeing it made me think, if it were to turn up in the pages of the Books and Blades thread, it couldn’t fail to be paired up with the gaucho influenced works of Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges, freighted as they often are, with portentous blades:
Streetcorner Man,
The Meeting, Rosendo’s Tale, and of course, his poem:
The Dagger.
