knife
date: label: date made
content: after 1787
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip is welded to an iron bolster. Tang is inserted into a fluted and tapered black horn handle and held in place with a single brass pin. Metal is heavily corroded with heavy rust on bolster. Horn is crazed and cracked on backside near bolster. Brass is beginning to corrode.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “WALTON”
label: Description
content: Maker is possibly Richard Walton, listed in the 1787 Sheffield, England directory. This style horn handle is similar to those illustrated in Joseph Smith’s Key to Sheffield Manufactories (1816).
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
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bernard R. Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0635.01
label: accession number
content: 1986.0635
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0635.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cow horn (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, iron (bolster material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (pin material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 10 7/8 in x 1 1/8 in; 1.27 cm x 27.6225 cm x 2.8575 cm