knife, dinner
date: label: date made
content: 1880- 1897
name: label: maker
content: Landers, Frary & Clark
notes: label: Description
content: Dinner knife. Straight steel blade with rounded tip. Blade and bolster are one piece of steel fitted into a tapered hard rubber handle with rounded sides and butt. Blade is discolored and rusted. Rubber is scratched.
label: Description
content: Blade is etched: “LANDERS FRARY & CLARK/AETNA WORKS”
label: Description
content: Maker is Landers, Frary & Clark, New Britain, Connecticut (c. 1862). In 1890, L. F. & C. took on the Trademark “Universal”, in 1965, General Electric acquired the company.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, New Britain
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: 1986.0531.070
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.070
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, steel (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/8 in x 9 in x 13/16 in; .9525 cm x 22.86 cm x 2.06375 cm