Max Knives PA36M — Two-finger impact tool with a skull motif

Overview

The PA36M belongs to the motif pieces, and its motif is a skull. The death's head fills the body between the two finger holes, right out to the edges, and it is what you see before you even recognise the object. The format stays short, that of a piece the hand closes in one movement and sets back down on a shelf afterwards. The shop gives two facts for this reference: two fingers, skull motif.

The skull, a classic of the genre

The skull is a very old motif indeed. Renaissance engravers placed it on vanitas plates as a reminder that time passes, regiments embroidered it on their headgear, then rings, belt buckles and jackets took it up through the twentieth century until it became a signature. On a metal piece it also has an advantage of drawing: the front of a skull is symmetrical, it sits inside a square, and two hollowed eye sockets are enough to make it recognisable from across a room. That is why it turns up on so many small collected objects.

Technical specifications

Impact tool with two finger holes, body carrying a skull motif. That is all the catalogue page states: the material is not given, nor the length, the height or the weight, and none of those values has been reconstructed here. The neighbouring reference PA36M2 carries the same skull under another number, which lets a series be completed without changing motif.

Legal notice. Impact tools are restricted or prohibited in a number of countries and are frequently refused in aircraft cabin baggage. Check the law that applies where the order is delivered before purchasing.