Dessert Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1846 - 1855
notes: label: Description
content: Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and rectangular bolster are one piece of steel with tang fitted into a tapered ivory handle with straight sides and rounded butt. Metal is discolored, minor rust. Ivory is yellowed and separated from bolster. Long crack in handle from bolster to butt. Blade stamped: “PRATT ROPES WEBB&Co / AMERICAN CUTLERY”. With matching fork, 1986.0531.116.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Meriden
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0531.115
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.531.115
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Dessert; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 7 7/8 in x 3/4 in; .9525 cm x 20.0025 cm x 1.905 cm