Fork
Gloria P > wrote:
>Steve Pope wrote:
>> Looks to me like a hilt to prevent the fork from going in too far,
>> when you shove it into a greasy bird. But I've also never seen
>> this before.
>Not quite. My late mother-in-law had a bone-handled carving set with a
>fork that had that rod. It is a "rest" to prevent the fork tines from
>touching the tableclolth and getting it dirty if it slid off the
>platter. On MIL's fork the rod swiveled down so it wouldn't be in the
>way when you were carving.
Thanks, mystery solved.
Steve
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