Shiv'er me timbers.

There are some more beautiful photographs of a collection of shivs (taken by Brett Yasko) along with backstories at the Design Observer.

"The shivs shown here, from the collection of designers Chris Kasabach and Vanessa Sica, were confiscated more than twenty years ago from New Jersey’s Rahway Prison (now East Jersey State Penitentiary), a maximum-security facility that houses more than 1,500 inmates serving sentences of twenty-five years to life."

Take a looksee....or I'll cut you.

[via Design Observer]