knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1834
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight silver-plated steel blade with rounded tip and squared “yankee” style bolster. Blade and bolster are one piece of metal with tang fitted into an ivory handle with rounded corners and butt. Metal is heavily scratched and stained, plate is worn. Ivory is yellowed and scratched, has long crack down one side.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “1834/J. RUSSELL & CO./12”
label: Description
content: Maker is John Russell & Company, Turner Falls, Massachusetts, 1834-present.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.147
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.147
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, silver-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 3/8 in x 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 23.8125 cm x 2.2225 cm