# Bread knife

> Made forty feet from where it hangs now.

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- Made by: Merrin & Sons, Tenter Lane
- Date: 1931
- Material: Sheffield steel, beech, brass rivets
- Size: 34 cm long
- Cost new: One and sixpence
- Came from: Made in the works; kept by the family
- On view: The kitchen, by the bread crock

Merrin & Sons made table knives, bread knives and carving sets in this building from 1868 to 1979. This one never left: it was a second, with a handle slightly off true, so it went next door to the house instead of to a shop in Leeds.

The blade has been sharpened so often that it is a centimetre narrower than when it was made. You can see the original line where the steel is darker, near the handle.