"Are you sure?" she asked "Why is the knife blunt then? It doesn't look like a knife for cutting fruit at all."
"Of course it is" I said "look it's even got a picture of a pineapple on the sides."
She looked up 'Erinmore' on Google and took great pleasure in showing me what it really is, a 1960's pipe knife. Oh the shame.
The spike is a pick, 'a narrow rod or pin that can be used to clear the shank of debris, or to aerate tightly packed tobacco' and the other tool is a reamer: 'a flat instrument shaped like a dull pen-knife blade or a flattened spoon, used to scrape ash and unburned tobacco (dottle) off the sides and bottom of a pipe.' (Wikipedia.) Erinmore tobacco was produced by the Northern Ireland company, Murray, Sons and Company Ltd which began trading in Belfast in 1810.
