Victor Sack wrote:

> Gloria P > wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Why just the fork, why not also the knife, then?

Another good question would involve the fact that the descriptions of all
of the forks I found online that were made like called them guards.


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