Just what the well-to-do Elizabethan merchant carried. Mr. Voss portrays such a personage at Renaissance Faires, and now shows his status in life by sporting this knife. The details:

Blade: 9" of book-matched woodgrain Damascus steel

Handle: Bolivian Rosewood, incised lines and studded with nickel silver nails.

Furniture: Coin silver and 10kt yellow gold (with an oval amethyst that came from the same place the gold did...his dad's college class ring.

Private Collection