knife, carving
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
notes: label: Description
content: Carving knife. Straight steel blade with drop point tip is one piece with tang. Iron bolster is attached with single steel pin. Bone scales are riveted to tang with brass pins to form a tapered block handle with chamfered sides and rounded butt. Scratched overall with heavy rusting particularly on bolster. Bone is yellowed and heavily crazed. Scales are loose. Brass is beginning to corrode.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped; [Illegible/worn]REGAN & COMPANY/COLUMBIA WORKS SHEFFIELD”; with heavily faded crown and “F” above.
label: Description
content: Maker is Marvel Regan & Company (Trademark Columbia Works), active in Sheffield, England circa 1880.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.237
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.237
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, carving
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Carving; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bone (scales material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (bolster material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pins material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 12 7/8 in x 1 in; 1.27 cm x 32.7025 cm x 2.54 cm