knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1930- 1940
name: label: maker
content: Robinson Knife Co.
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Upturned stainless steel blade with rounded tip is fitted into pewter bolster and inserted into orange-yellow celluloid handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Celluloid is two-toned; opaque at top 1/3, translucent for bottom 2/3. Scratched overall. Celluloid is crazed.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “Robinson Knife Co./STAINLESS STEEL/MADE IN U.S.A.”; heavily faded.
label: Description
content: Maker is Robinson Knife Company of Springville, New York, 1921-present, now Robinson Home Products, Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Springville
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: 1986.0531.223
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.223
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dinner
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dinner; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal, stainless steel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic, celluloid (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, pewter (bolster material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 1/4 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 23.495 cm x 1.905 cm