Man I think it's really really sad that people hardly even remember what 
the art of decoration in a life was all about.

  Appliances, computers, most furniture, most cars, even many of our 
very homes............  Plain and flat and shapeless and sorely lacking 
in even the slightest trace of grace.  Elegant as a cereal box and less 
shapely than a bag of grain.
  Our ancestors would consider much of the way many of us live, to 
resemble a prison.  Thin and cold.
 
 And its been so far removed and forgotten,  here we have perfectly 
intelligent people speculating that a lovely piece of whimsey and pizazz 
must surely have had to serve another purpose. 
 
  I guess then, that the wheat carving, curving spurs and swooping lines 
to the handle , delicately embossed medallion and 4 or 5 screws when 3 
would do,  was all some kind of plan to gunsight the target line?  
  sigh

 Life is hard. Every little comfort, is comfort.
 yours, Scott
 
 
 

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