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Time to test your ET knowledge. The ET.com staff is always digging for nuggests and had to dig really DEEP to come up with a good one for you here. Are you ready?What is the oldest known published toenail? It could have been in a catalog, advertisement or any other image of a toenail knife? Just so we are clear here- the answer will only deal with any printed reference that includes an actual picture in it….so it could be an advertisement, or cutlery company catalog (or any thing else you know about that actually has a picture of a toenail in it).

1. Was it a in publication, catalog, photograph, billhead, sign or what?
2. What is the date associated with when it was published (must have an actual date or year)
3. What knife company or brand was the toenail?

Put your thinking caps on here. Clue: It isn’t one of the “granddaddies” of cutlery co’s you would normally think of.

Answer: John Chatillon & Sons ad published in Hardware Magazine- October 10th, 1902

Did you get it? Were you surprised?

There is a lot we can discuss about the fact that JC&S is the earliest published toenail discovered to date, but I’ll save that for later.

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