knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
name: label: maker
content: Joseph Rodgers & Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of silver-plated steel. Scroll motif around bulbous bolster. Cylindrical silver-plated steel handle with blunt butt. Heavily scratched with pitted areas on handle, silver plate is worn off in areas. Butt is dented.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “V [Image of crown]R/JOSEPH RODGERS & SONS/CUTLERS TO HER MAJESTY”; with trademark star and Maltese cross.
label: Description
content: The bolster is stamped: “MFG CO/N”
label: Description
content: Maker is Joseph Rodgers & Sons, active 1682-1971 in Sheffield, England.
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: 1986.0531.056
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.056
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver-plated (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 10 1/2 in x 7/8 in; 1.5875 cm x 26.67 cm x 2.2225 cm