Child's Knife
date: label: date made
content: ca 1850
notes: label: Description
content: Small knife having a blunt blade with integral bolster fitted into a slightly flared, rectangular ivory handle chamfered at edges and rounded-over at end that is engraved lengthwise on front “GOOD GIRLS REWARD” in a scrolled banner, colored black. Mark or front side of blade stamped “THO\S(???)TRAM & SONS / [MANUF]ACTURERS / [SHE]FFIELD” in incuse serif letters. From a two-piece child's or youth's flatware set (knife and fork), 1986.0531.084-.085.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, Sheffield, Sheffield
topic: label: Subject
content: Eating
label: Subject
content: Children
label: Subject
content: Gifts & Presents
label: Subject
content: Girls
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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: 1986.0531.084
label: accession number
content: 1986.0531
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0531.084
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knife
label: Object Type
content: cutlery
label: Other Terms
content: Knife, Child's; Cutlery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: steel (blade and tang material)
label: Physical Description
content: ivory (handle material)
label: Physical Description
content: pigment (decoration material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/16 in x 6 7/8 in x 5/8 in; .79375 cm x 17.4625 cm x 1.5875 cm