#antique knives

[koenji]

european romantic dagger with unusual blade. bronze scabbard with flower motifs.

[katriniac]

TIL about musical knives.

Of course, this meant I had to immediately apply this new knowledge to a scenario in one of my favorite 2d worlds: Ikemen Vampire.

Every time Mozart publishes a new composition, le Comte buys a copy in the city (he could simply *borrow* the sheet music from Mozart's conservatory, but Comte wants to support the musician's second career and knows a sale will mean more) and then has a silversmith engrave the stanzas on a cake knife.

He has Sebastian bake a cake, to be presented after everyone is done with dinner. Le Comte pulls out the knife, does his best to hum the notes (to half-hearted applause from the residents), and then slices up and serves the cake.

A sweet gesture, no?

But Mozart is a prolific composer.

This means he is running out of room in his trophy case for all these damned knives.

The residents can only eat so much cake (not to mention le Comte's less-than-tuneful humming).

😅 Just imagine his face when they ask him to stop the tradition?! 🥹 Aww, poor papa. He just wants to be proud of his boys! 🥺

[partikron]

When I was a kid I fell in love with swords, knives, and every other "cold weapon" imaginable. The allure of swords in particular has directed my interests for years, and I always assumed that getting my hands on antique weapons would be completely out of my tax bracket.

So imagine my surprise a number of years back when I started purchasing antique swords and knives and discovered that many of them are quite affordable, especially short bladed weapons like the kukri seen here.

The kukri is a knife known to basically anyone who's interested in arms and armor. The quintessential Nepalese fighting knife driven to fame (or infamy) by the Gurkhas, the kukri is a beast in hand. If you're more used to the weight and balance of a tanto or other large knives, there's a brief moment of readjustment, but for someone like me who prefers chunky, blade-heavy weapons, the kukri is the perfect fighting knife.

[memories-of-ancients]

Italian stiletto, 17th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

[weirdpngs]

[peashooter85]

Romantic style Toledo dagger, Spain, dated 1865

from Sofe Design Auctions

[peashooter-in-exile]

Hunting dagger with agate hilt, French, late 18th century

from Helios Auctions

[tentacion3099]

[treasure-of-the-ancients]

Dagger decorated with gold, rubies, and emeralds, Mughal Empire, 17th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[see-arcane]

But could Jonathan Harker survive Night Vale?

He has good odds, I think. Less in his pre-cryptid era, but a fair chance just the same. I think the issue for Jonathan Harker in any land with a vein of strangeness, however good, bad, or weird, is that he has a habit of getting a piece of that Place and its resident Horrors stuck to him like metaphysical gum.

Jonathan Harker would survive Night Vale, but whatever time/space warp that stole and then returned him to Victorian England wouldn't scour the place's influence from him.

At the very least he will still hear Cecil's broadcast every day, leaking from the horn of the nearest phonograph.

[amatesura]

Blood-letting lancets and knives 1650-1925.

[koenji]

swedish navy dagger, first half of the 19th century.

[shadyufo]

This neat old knife is called a fleam and it is an antique blood-letting tool. This type of fleam was used in the 1800s to the very early 1900s by veterinarians but medical doctors occasionally used them on human patients as well.

Want to add it to your own collection? It's currently available HERE in my Etsy shop!

[yourcoffeeguru]

Tibetan Kartika Crescent Knife Vajrayana Buddhist Sky Burial Vajra Dorje c1930s || SWtradepost - ebay

[memories-of-ancients]

Ornate Roman pugio uncovered in 2019 near Haltern am See in what is now Germany. 1st-2nd century AD

[the-worms-in-your-bones]

Autism win, I got tickets to a doctor who con and three knives for my birthday