[TheForge] Finish on a fork

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> I have a commecially made black iron table knife and fork -- wooden
> slab handles with zinc (?) trim from (maybe?) mid or late 1800s.  A
> little pork fat seems to keep them fine if they're stored in a dry
> place.
>
> (Anybody know when this style of cutlery was made?  Phlip? )
>
> - Mike

Not really- it's too modern for me ;-) Most of what I deal with was
hand-made, usually of silver, for the nobility in my period of interest-
mere peons ate with their hands until fairly late, and the rise of the
middle class. While forks were far more known than most people realize, they
tended to be limited to Italy and the Mediterranean until fairly late,
although I have heard of a Viking spork.

Phlip

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....