Cake Knife
date: label: Date
content: 1870s
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Sperry Douglas Brower and Son, Albany, New York, USA, formerly Hall, Hewson and Brower
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Silver cake knife with undulate, hourglass-shaped handle and flat spade with serrated edge and pointed tip. Engraved and stamped decoration, spade face with scene of palm trees and tent, and handle with geometric and stylized foliate patterns. Reverse of knife undecorated.
place: label: manufactured in
content: Albany, New York, United States
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2011-7-1
objectType: label: Type
content: metalwork
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Type
content: knife
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: silver
label: Dimensions
content: L x W x D: 27.6 × 4.1 × 0.2 cm (10 7/8 × 1 5/8 × 1/16 in.)