knife, dessert
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Dessert knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip and square bolster. Blade, bolster, and tang are one piece of steel fitted into an ivory tapered block handle with straight sides and a rounded butt. Metal has scratches and minor discoloration. Ivory is yellowed with minor discoloration.
label: Description
content: Blade is stamped: “J. GARSIDE/SUPERIOR CUTLERY”
label: Description
content: Maker is the John Garside, Washington Factory, Newark, New Jersey, active in the mid-19th century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Newark
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: 1986.0531.105
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.105
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife, dessert
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, steel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 8 3/8 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 21.2725 cm x 2.06375 cm