Boy, I'm so glad I posted this! Most fascinating, Sirs!

Given the place I found it, a misdating, even one totally immalicious, doesn't strike me as out of place, particularly on what is merely an æsthetically pleasing curio to them, and what is a very significant and living part of a tradition to us. And as far as the pricing goes...well, the thing speaks for itself. I'd expect the fittings to be at least twenty-two karat for that usurious sum.

On the laws, I looked at a summary of United States open-carry laws I found somewhere on here, and what struck me as odd is that Pasadena had much more liberal laws than L.A. county as a whole (five or seven-inch blade as opposed to a three-inch blade). But as I say, I never did understand that clearly.

Jake