steel block
date: label: date made
content: ca 1920
notes: label: Description
content: Five piece demonstration set for dinner knife blades (1986.531.240A-E). Set shows the sequence of producing a dinner knife blade from raw material into a refined blade with tang.
label: Description
content: Finished blade is stamped: “ENCORE”/THOMAS TURNER & Co./CUTLERS TO HIS MAJESTY/HYGIENIC STAINLESS”
label: Description
content: Maker is Thomas Turner & Company, Sheffield, England 1802-1932. The “Encore” line was introduced in 1805. This mark was in use after 1901.
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
label: See more items in
content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.240A
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.240A
objectType: label: Object Name
content: blade, demonstration
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Blade; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in x 1/2 in; 1.27 cm x 5.715 cm x 1.27 cm