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Discoveries: Handle Patterns

9/14/2020

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​Recently, the dangerous business of digging through bins of kitchenware at thrift stores finally paid off when I found this Merry Mushrooms carving knife. It is in rough shape but it is undeniably part of the collection. And for a very affordable $.99. But when I took a closer look, something clicked and I realized that the handle designs changed!
​The carving set, a large two-tined fork and long bladed knife, appeared alongside the hanging kitchen tool set and tableware set in only one catalog in 1975. Though the picture quality from the catalog isn't the best, it's clear that the mushroom design runs vertically on the handles (below),
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In the next catalog, the carving set disappears. However, the hanging kitchen tool set now has a different design, one it keeps in every catalog thereafter. This design is the much more familiar three mushroom one, slightly stretched vertically and placed in the center of the handles. The tableware handle design appears to remain the original long vertical line of mushrooms. I suppose the size and shape of spoon, knife, and fork handles made the original design the best choice.
The changing handle design is one mystery solved. But what about the rounded, and not pointed, tip on my knife? The extreme wear suggests that it was used frequently and for a long time so the previous owner may have replaced the blade. Or, as my husband suggested, assembly ran out of pointed blades and substituted rounded ones.
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BRIAN S PERRY
12/27/2020 10:13:48 pm

Just came across an original carving knife! I'm waiting on delivery but it does have a pointed tip. The blade on it is serrated also.

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