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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10408645, member: 8267&quot;]The &quot;tabs&quot; may just be there to provide a more secure attachment point for the bowed handle(?), instead of relying on a join at the inner edge of the ring alone. </p><p><br /></p><p>Looking at other knife rests, they seem to favor a clean, undecorated surface for the section the knife actually rests on. </p><p><br /></p><p>While looking for confirmation of the knife rest hypothesis, however, I came across this amusement -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]523799[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="4">&quot;Brass Knife rest</font></p><p><font size="4">This brass knife rest used to be part of a collection that was once owned by the Russain Romanov family. Found at an estate sale of a relative of a Romanov Nanny.&quot;</font></p><p><font size="4"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/1555649245/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/1555649245/" rel="nofollow">https://www.flickr.com/photos/drb62/1555649245/</a></font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4">This is, instead, a vajra/dorje - a ritual object used in Tibetan Buddhism.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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