prop du jour

Here is my new favorite prop. 

Found this at a cool little antique shop in the Berkshires.

I can only image the life this handcarved knife has had:

1. carved with love, probably over in Germany or England in the mid 1800s.

2. used to cut a million and one loaves of homemade bread baked with love.

3. sold with contents of estate

4. landed on a shelf in Sheffield

5. in my grubby little hands for a half a second before we fell in love.

6. found a new home at Boalder Lodge

7. cut my best friend Emily's heritage wheat bread for dinner (this picture)

8. shot for a new cookbook with said bread (much better photo shot by Stephen Murello, you'll have to wait for the book to see that one)

9. home sweet home until it is sold at my estate sale, which I assume will be an auction of all my props with proceeds to go to hospice and Operation Santa.

Do you have a favored new/old item that speaks to you? 

That has a history? 

Making one of it's own?